Guilty Creatures: Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship

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Oxford University Press, 2001 - 268 страница
In this innovative and learned study, Dennis Kezar examines how Renaissance poets conceive the theme of killing as a specifically representational and interpretive form of violence. Closely reading both major poets and lesser known authors of the early modern period, Kezar explores the ethical self-consciousness and accountability that attend literary killing, paying particular attention to the ways in which this reflection indicates the poet's understanding of his audience. Among the many poems through which Kezar explores the concept of authorial guilt elicited by violent representation are Skelton's Phyllyp Sparowe, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the multi-authored Witch of Edmonton, and Milton's Samson Agonistes.

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The Renaissance Killing Poem
3
Courting Heresy and Taking the Subject John Skeltons Precedent
17
Spenser and the Poetics of Indiscretion
50
The Properties of Shakespeares Globe
86
The Witch of Edmonton and the Guilt of Possession
114
Samsons Death by Theater and Miltons Art of Dying
139
Guilt and the Constitution of Authorship in Henry V and the Antitheatrical Elegies of W S and Milton
172
Notes
207
Index
263
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Dennis Kezar is at Vanderbilt University.

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