Refiguring Mimesis
Representation in Early Modern Literature
Published on 28. October 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-902806-35-8 (ISBN)
Description
Focusing squarely on the strength of mimesis as a philosophical idea, this collection of essays considers aspects of mimesis ranging from Shakespeare to colonialism. As the philosophical agenda of major thinkers and writers responds to representational crises like post-structuralism and postmodernism, attention is turning away from artistic expressivity and back towards uses of mimesis. The nine included essays present a varied set of theoretical ideas and challenge the ingrained concept that mimesis is only a transparent reflection of reality. This fresh assessment of an ancient and much-cited practice brings new attention to the ways in which the early modern period made use of such representation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
Adult education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
531 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-902806-35-8 (9781902806358)
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Persons
Jonathan Holmes is a lecturer in drama at Royal Holloway, University of London and a theater director. He has published articles in several journals including Shakespeare Survey and New Theatre Quarterly, and is the author of 'Merely Players?' Actors' Accounts of Performing Shakespeare. Adrian Streete is a lecturer in English at the Queen's University of Belfast. He published works on Marlowe, Shakespeare, Nashe, Calvin, and early modern sign theory in journals such as Literature and History and Literature and Theology.
Content
Jonathan Holmes: 'Marble-constant': Mimesis and The Winter's Tale; Paul Innes: 'Pluck but his name out of his heart': A Caesarean Cross-section; Vance Adair: 'Tis in Reversion That I Do Possess': Speculation and Destination in Richard II; Adrian Streete: 'The Iniquity of the Fathers': Masculinity, Revenge and Representation in The Revenger's Tragedy; Gabriel Egan: Platonism and Bathos in Shakespeare and other early modern dramas; Monika Smialkowska: Court Masque: An Idealist Mimesis?; Christian Billing: The Distorting Mirror: Theatrical Mimesis on the Early Modern Transvestite Stage; Roger Starling: 'Scenes from the life of one who is suited for nothing': The 'Subject' of Mimesis in Shakespeare and Contemporary French Thought; Poonam Trivedi: 'Bananas on a Mango Tree': The Paradoxical Hybridities of a Colonising Mimesis