Solitude and Speechlessness: Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation
Recent literary criticism, along with academic culture at large, has stressed collaboration as essential to textual creation and sociability as a literary and academic virtue. Solitude and Speechlessness proposes an alternative understanding of writing with a complementary mode of reading: literary...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Recent literary criticism, along with academic culture at large, has stressed collaboration as essential to textual creation and sociability as a literary and academic virtue. Solitude and Speechlessness proposes an alternative understanding of writing with a complementary mode of reading: literary engagement, it suggests, is the meeting of strangers, each in a state of isolation. The Renaissance authors discussed in this study did not necessarily work alone or without collaborators, but they were uncertain who would read their writings and whether those readers would understand them. These concerns are represented in their work through tropes, images, and characterizations of isolation. The figure of the isolated, misunderstood, or misjudged poet is a preoccupation that relies on imagining the lives of wandering and complaining youths, eloquent melancholics, exemplary hermits, homeless orphans, and retiring stoics; such figures acknowledge the isolation in literary experience. As a response to this isolation of literary connection, Solitude and Speechlessness proposes an interpretive mode it defines as strange reading: a reading that merges comprehension with indeterminacy and the imaginative work of interpretation with the recognition of historical difference |
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| spelling | Mattison, Andrew Verfasser aut Solitude and Speechlessness Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation Andrew Mattison Toronto University of Toronto Press [2019] © 2019 1 online resource txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019) Recent literary criticism, along with academic culture at large, has stressed collaboration as essential to textual creation and sociability as a literary and academic virtue. Solitude and Speechlessness proposes an alternative understanding of writing with a complementary mode of reading: literary engagement, it suggests, is the meeting of strangers, each in a state of isolation. The Renaissance authors discussed in this study did not necessarily work alone or without collaborators, but they were uncertain who would read their writings and whether those readers would understand them. These concerns are represented in their work through tropes, images, and characterizations of isolation. The figure of the isolated, misunderstood, or misjudged poet is a preoccupation that relies on imagining the lives of wandering and complaining youths, eloquent melancholics, exemplary hermits, homeless orphans, and retiring stoics; such figures acknowledge the isolation in literary experience. As a response to this isolation of literary connection, Solitude and Speechlessness proposes an interpretive mode it defines as strange reading: a reading that merges comprehension with indeterminacy and the imaginative work of interpretation with the recognition of historical difference In English Geschichte 1500-1600 gnd rswk-swf Aemilia Lanyer Andrew Marvell ascetics authorship Francis Bacon hermits isolation John Donne melancholy obscurity poets Shakespeare Sidney-Pembroke Circle solitude Thomas Traherne LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance bisacsh Authorship English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism Social isolation in literature Solitude in literature Isolation Soziologie, Motiv (DE-588)4441902-8 gnd rswk-swf Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd rswk-swf Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd rswk-swf England (DE-588)4014770-8 gnd rswk-swf England (DE-588)4014770-8 g Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 s Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 s Isolation Soziologie, Motiv (DE-588)4441902-8 s Geschichte 1500-1600 z 1\p DE-604 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487519322 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
| spellingShingle | Mattison, Andrew Solitude and Speechlessness Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation Aemilia Lanyer Andrew Marvell ascetics authorship Francis Bacon hermits isolation John Donne melancholy obscurity poets Shakespeare Sidney-Pembroke Circle solitude Thomas Traherne LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance bisacsh Authorship English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism Social isolation in literature Solitude in literature Isolation Soziologie, Motiv (DE-588)4441902-8 gnd Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd |
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| title | Solitude and Speechlessness Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation |
| title_auth | Solitude and Speechlessness Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation |
| title_exact_search | Solitude and Speechlessness Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation |
| title_full | Solitude and Speechlessness Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation Andrew Mattison |
| title_fullStr | Solitude and Speechlessness Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation Andrew Mattison |
| title_full_unstemmed | Solitude and Speechlessness Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation Andrew Mattison |
| title_short | Solitude and Speechlessness |
| title_sort | solitude and speechlessness renaissance writing and reading in isolation |
| title_sub | Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation |
| topic | Aemilia Lanyer Andrew Marvell ascetics authorship Francis Bacon hermits isolation John Donne melancholy obscurity poets Shakespeare Sidney-Pembroke Circle solitude Thomas Traherne LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance bisacsh Authorship English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism Social isolation in literature Solitude in literature Isolation Soziologie, Motiv (DE-588)4441902-8 gnd Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd |
| topic_facet | Aemilia Lanyer Andrew Marvell ascetics authorship Francis Bacon hermits isolation John Donne melancholy obscurity poets Shakespeare Sidney-Pembroke Circle solitude Thomas Traherne LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance Authorship English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism Social isolation in literature Solitude in literature Isolation Soziologie, Motiv Literatur Englisch England |
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