Go Figure : Energies, Forms, and Institutions in the Early Modern World / ed. by Judith H. Anderson, Joan Pong Linton.
Anderson, Judith H., contributor.; Anderson, Judith H., editor.; Berger, Harry, contributor.; Crane, Mary Thomas, contributor.; Dubrow, Heather, contributor.; Gallagher, Lowell, contributor.; Glimp, David, contributor.; Hedrick, Donald, contributor.; Pong Linton, Joan, contributor.; Pong Linton, Joan, editor.; Yates, Julian, contributor.; Zurcher, Amelia, contributor.
2022
Available Online

Linked e-resources

Linked Resource Online Access

Details

Title Go Figure : Energies, Forms, and Institutions in the Early Modern World / ed. by Judith H. Anderson, Joan Pong Linton.
ISBN 9780823291694
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291694
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (228 p.)
Item Number 10.1515/9780823291694 doi
Summary Go Figure addresses theories of the figure and practices of figuration ranging from classical rhetoric and biblical exegesis to semiotics, psychoanalysis, and socio-politics. Situating theory in history, the essays in this volume focus on verbal and visual texts from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and they explore science, sacramental poetics, romance and lyric narrative, and the natural world in still lifes, prayer, parasites, and politics. They engage the work of poets, painters, storytellers, and playwrights. While the theories that inform them are many and various, they share a point of reference in the work of Jean-François Lyotard, who theorizes the co-presence in language of the figure and discourse: Lyotard's figure relates to discourse as image emerges in description, as sense accompanies signification, and as energies shape texts from within. The original essays invited for the volume show how figural energies and forms inhabit both texts and the practices that produce them-how figures are fundamentally in play in the making of subjects, societies, traditions, and institutions.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics text file PDF
Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
Added Author Anderson, Judith H., contributor.
Anderson, Judith H., editor.
Berger, Harry, contributor.
Crane, Mary Thomas, contributor.
Dubrow, Heather, contributor.
Gallagher, Lowell, contributor.
Glimp, David, contributor.
Hedrick, Donald, contributor.
Pong Linton, Joan, contributor.
Pong Linton, Joan, editor.
Yates, Julian, contributor.
Zurcher, Amelia, contributor.
In Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780823233496
Linked Resources Online Access
Record Appears in Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Spenser's Giant and the New Science
The Sacramental Neuter and the Missing Body in Robert Southwell's Poetics
Reconfiguring Figuring: John Donne as Narrative Poet
The Narrative Turn against Metaphor: Metonymy, Identification, and Roger Boyle's Parthenissa
Caterpillage: Death and Truthiness in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting
Figuring Belief: George Herbert's Devotional Creatures
Entertaining Friends: Falstaff 's Parasitology
Skin Merchants: Jack Cade's Futures and the Figural Politics of Henry VI, Part II
Notes
List of Contributors
Index

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export