| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 349 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The Renaissance of mumbling: Latinity, reformation polemic, and the mother tongue -- From fault to figure: the case of Madge Mumblecrust in Ralph Roister Doister -- Disarticulating community: nation, law, history, and The Spanish tragedy -- Acting in the passive voice: Love's labour's lost and the melancholy of print -- Feeling inarticulate: on communal vulnerability and the sense of touch in Lingua and Hamlet |
| Summary |
The Inarticulate Renaissance explores the conceptual potential of the disabled utterance in the English literary Renaissance. What might it have meant, in the sixteenth-century "age of eloquence," to speak indistinctly; to mumble to oneself or to God; to speak unintelligibly to a lover, a teacher, a court of law; or to be utterly dumfounded in the face of new words, persons, situations, and things? This innovative book maps out a "Renaissance" otherwise eclipsed by cultural and literary-critical investments in a period defined by the impact of classical humanism, Reformation poetics, and the flourishing of vernacular languages and literatures.For Carla Mazzio, the specter of the inarticulate was part of a culture grappling with the often startlingly incoherent dimensions of language practices and ideologies in the humanities, religion, law, historiography, print, and vernacular speech. Through a historical analysis of forms of failed utterance, as they informed and were recast in sixteenth-century drama, her book foregrounds the inarticulate as a central subject of cultural history and dramatic innovation. Playwrights from Nicholas Udall to William Shakespeare, while exposing ideological fictions through which articulate and inarticulate became distinguished, also transformed apparent challenges to "articulate" communication into occasions for cultivating new forms of expression and audition |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-330) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Eloquence in literature.
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English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History
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Speech and social status -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Speech and social status -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Speech in literature.
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Silence in literature.
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Rhetoric, Renaissance.
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Speech, Intelligibility of.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Eloquence in literature.
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English language -- Early modern.
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English literature -- Early modern.
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Rhetoric, Renaissance.
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Silence in literature.
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Speech and social status.
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Speech in literature.
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Speech, Intelligibility of.
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England.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0812293401 |
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9780812293401 |
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