The Inarticulate Renaissance: Language Trouble in an Age of Eloquence - Hardcover

Mazzio, Carla

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081224138X ISBN 13: 9780812241389

Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Carla Mazzio is Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 081224138X
• ISBN 13: 9780812241389
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 360
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