Indecorous Thinking: Figures of Speech in Early Modern Poetics by Colleen Ruth R

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Indecorous Thinking by Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld Indecorous Thinking argues that early modern writers including Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth challenged humanisms increasingly dogmatic conflation of truth with plainness by treating figures of speech as the instruments of thinking and as the engines of poetrys imaginative worlds. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Indecorous Thinking is a study of artifice at its most conspicuous: it argues that early modern writers turned to figures of speech like simile, antithesis, and periphrasis as the instruments of a particular kind of thinking unique to the emergent field of vernacular poesie. The classical ideal of decorum described the absence of visible art as a precondition for rhetoric, civics, and beauty: speaking well meant speaking as if off-the-cuff. Against this ideal, Rosenfeld argues that one of early modern literatures richest contributions to poetics is the idea that indecorous art-artifice that rings out with the bells and whistles of ornamentation-celebrates the craft of poetry even as it expands poetrys range of activities. Rosenfeld details a lost legacy of humanism that contributes to contemporary debates over literary studies singular but deeply ambivalent commitment to form. Form, she argues, must be reexamined through the legacy of figure. Reading poetry by Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth alongside pedagogical debates of the period and the emergence of empiricism, with its signature commitment to the plain style, Rosenfeld offers a robust account of the triumphs and embarrassments that attended the conspicuous display of artifice. Drawing widely across the arts of rhetoric, dialectic, and poetics, Indecorous Thinking offers a defense of the epistemological value of form: not as a sign of the aesthetic but as the source of a particular kind of knowledge we might call poetic. Author Biography Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld is Associate Professor of English at Pomona College. Review "It is rare to encounter a book as learned, engaging, thorough, and innovative as Colleen Rosenfelds Indecorous Thinking. Rosenfeld deftly challenges a long-held truism of literary history: that sprezzatura, or the concealment of labor, was a goal uniformly shared by celebrated English poets. To the contrary, Rosenfeld shows, early modern writers frequently practiced open art, or art that makes conspicuous-even audacious-use of figures of speech. Refusing to confine itself to what uncontestably is, this poetry works instead in the subjunctive mood to imagine a world constructed otherwise." -- -Melissa Sanchez University of Pennsylvania "Indecorous Thinking is an excellent and timely book about how poetic figures craft thought and work together as engines of poetic world making. It is a rich and sustaining book, one anyone working in the field of English Renaissance literature will want to own and have ready to hand. Indecorous Thinking is original but it is also traditionally learned; tightly argued but also elegantly written; daring but also mature." -- -Gordon Teskey Harvard University Long Description Indecorous Thinking is a study of artifice at its most conspicuous: it argues that early modern writers turned to figures of speech like simile, antithesis, and periphrasis as the instruments of a particular kind of thinking unique to the emergent field of vernacular poesie. The classical ideal of decorum described the absence of visible art as a precondition for rhetoric, civics, and beauty: speaking well meant speaking as if off-the-cuff. Against this ideal, Rosenfeld argues that one of early modern literatures richest contributions to poetics is the idea that indecorous art--artifice that rings out with the bells and whistles of ornamentation--celebrates the craft of poetry even as it expands poetrys range of activities. Rosenfeld details a lost legacy of humanism that contributes to contemporary debates over literary studies singular but deeply ambivalent commitment to form. Form, she argues, must be reexamined through the legacy of figure. Reading poetry by Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth alongside pedagogical debates of the period and the emergence of empiricism, with its signature commitment to the plain style, Rosenfeld offers a robust account of the triumphs and embarrassments that attended the conspicuous display of artifice. Drawing widely across the arts of rhetoric, dialectic, and poetics, Indecorous Thinking offers a defense of the epistemological value of form: not as a sign of the aesthetic but as the source of a particular kind of knowledge we might call poetic. Review Quote "It is rare to encounter a book as learned, engaging, thorough, and innovative as Colleen Rosenfelds Indecorous Thinking. Rosenfeld deftly challenges a long-held truism of literary history: that sprezzatura, or the concealment of labor, was a goal uniformly shared by celebrated English poets. To the contrary, Rosenfeld shows, early modern writers frequently practiced open art, or art that makes conspicuous--even audacious--use of figures of speech. Refusing to confine itself to what uncontestably is, this poetry works instead in the subjunctive mood to imagine a world constructed otherwise." Description for Reader Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld is Associate Professor of English at Pomona College. Details ISBN0823277917 Author Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld Pages 320 Publisher Fordham University Press Year 2018 ISBN-10 0823277917 ISBN-13 9780823277919 Format Hardcover Imprint Fordham University Press Subtitle Figures of Speech in Early Modern Poetics Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 821.309 Publication Date 2018-01-02 Short Title Indecorous Thinking Language English UK Release Date 2018-01-02 AU Release Date 2018-01-02 NZ Release Date 2018-01-02 US Release Date 2018-01-02 Birth 1908 Death 1908 Affiliation Cnrs-univ Pierre Marie Curie, France Position EDFR Qualifications PhD Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. 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