Literature and its rivals (1500-1660)
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- I observe three closely related functions of speech in the early modern period, communication, persuasion, and expression; and postulate theories about each in order to understand the mechanisms of discursive suppression. Drawing on a wide range of literary and cultural texts, including the works of Shakespeare, Sidney, and Milton, I argue that there was a rivalry between literary authors and religious authority over certain valued modes of speech. In the chapter on communication, I devise a normative taxonomy of speech that reflects religious orthodoxy; then, I reconstruct models of persuasion based on several recurring figures (speech as a food, drug, child, and messenger, to name a few); and last, I look at two concepts: expression, or speech that reflects a self capable of ordering things independently, in the burgeoning essay; and suppression, or speech that wishes to promote a divine order, in the form of Le Catalógue Des Livres Censurez, the first modern index of prohibited books.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Blumberg, Frederick Lawrence |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Comparative Literature |
| Primary advisor | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
| Thesis advisor | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
| Thesis advisor | Alduy, Cécile |
| Thesis advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Advisor | Alduy, Cécile |
| Advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Frederick Lawrence Blumberg. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Comparative Literature. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2011. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2011 by Frederick Lawrence Blumberg
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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