Reading Renaissance Ethics
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:26th Feb '07
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Bringing together some of the best current practitioners of historical and formal criticism, Reading Renaissance Ethics assesses the ethical performance of renaissance texts as historical agents in their time and in ours.
Exploring the nature and mechanics of cultural agency, the book explains with greater clarity just what is at stake when canon-formation, aesthetic evaluation and curricular reform are questioned and revised. Taking seriously the question of what to read requires us to consider exactly what it is that we do when we read and when we write about our reading. Reading Renaissance Ethics asks what sorts of events took place when Renaissance texts were first read and how this differs from the way we read and teach them now.
"Grossman assembles an extremely diverse collection of short essays on this theme by highly reputed Renaissance scholars..." -- Catherine Gimelli Martin, Studies in English Literature, Winter 2008
'... essential reading... The book draws together a fascinating set of essays written by an extremely influential group of scholars, and focuses attention on some powerful problems in contemporary literary and cultural studies. The fact that it offers some very different takes on those problems only increases its interest.'- Benedict S. Robinson, State University of New York
ISBN: 9780415406352
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Weight: 374g
304 pages