Author: Supriya Chaudhuri
Sukanta Chaudhuri/
Editor(s): Supriya Chaudhuri / Sukanta Chaudhuri
Publisher: Allied Publishers
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 161
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170235952
Description
The essays in this volume provide fresh readings of medieval and Renaissance texts, looking at the ways in which texts and events are written over in their conversion to cultural capital.
The volume brings together recent work by eleven distinguished scholars of the European Middle Ages and renaissance, addressing problems of literary history and periodization as well as the history of ideas and modes, gender, politics, rhetoric, popular literature, and cultural encounter. There are essays on Petrarch, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Middleton and Herbert, as well as on the political and cultural contexts which give shape and meaning to each text.
The volume is an important addition to literary criticism and scholarship in the field of medieval and Renaissance studies.
Contents
PREFACE
SAJNI MUKHERJI
A Thyng Impertinent: Dreaming Women in Chaucer
JHARNA SANYAL
From Medieval to renaissance: Two Criseyde Texts
SUKANTA CHAUDHURI
Gendering Love: Petrarch and the Sexes
APARAJITA NANDA
The Devil’s Own Sin, Pride: Lucifera and Orgoglio in Spenser’s Faerie Queene
SARBANI CHAUDHURY
Tudor Ballads and the London Prentice
SUPRIYA CHAUDHURI
Eating People is Wrong: cannibalism and renaissance culture
MIHIR BHATTACHARYA
Dogberry’s Exit and Other Events
HELEN COOPER
Hamlet and the Invention of Tragedy
AMLAN DAS GUPTA
Determined things: Power and Comic Structure in Measure for Measure
SWAPAN CHAKRAVORTY
Horrible Imaginings: Treason and Tragedy in the English renaissance
C S LIM
Rhetoric in the Poetry of George Herbert