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  1. Lyric Wonder
    Rhetoric and Wit in Renaissance English Poetry
    Author: Biester, James
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transcriptions and Citations -- Introduction -- 1. Strange and Admirable Methods -- 2. The Most Dangerous Game: Wonder, Melancholy, 6y and Satire -- 3. Suspicious Boldness -- 4.... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transcriptions and Citations -- Introduction -- 1. Strange and Admirable Methods -- 2. The Most Dangerous Game: Wonder, Melancholy, 6y and Satire -- 3. Suspicious Boldness -- 4. Powerful Insinuations: Obscurity as Catalyst and Veil -- 5. Passing Wonder or Wonder Passing? -- Bibliography -- Index James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style-metaphysical wit and strong lines-as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the search for strange artifacts and animals to display in the wonder-cabinets of the period.By embracing the genres of satire and epigram, poets of the Elizabethan court risked their chances for political advancement, exposing themselves to the danger of being classified either as malcontents or as jesters who lacked the gravitas required of those in power. John Donne himself recognized both the risks and benefits of adopting the'admirable'style, as Biester shows in his close readings of the First and Fourth Satyres.Why did courtier-poets adopt such a dangerous form of self-representation? The answer, Biester maintains, lies in an extraordinary confluence of developments in both poetics and the interpenetrating spheres of the culture at large, which made the pursuit of wonder through style unusually attractive, even necessary. In a postfeudal but still aristocratic culture, he says, the ability to astound through language performed the validating function that was once supplied by the ability to fight. Combining the insights of the new historicism with traditional literary scholarship, Biester perceives the rise of metaphysical style as a social as well as aesthetic event

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781501741272
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    Series: Rhetoric and Society
    Subjects: Rhetoric, Renaissance; English language; English poetry; English wit and humor; Renaissance; POETRY / Medieval
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (240 p)
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  2. Lyric wonder
    rhetoric and wit in Renaissance English poetry
    Author: Biester, James
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Cornell Univ. Pr., Ithaca [u.a.]

    James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style - metaphysical wit and strong lines - as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the... more

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    James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style - metaphysical wit and strong lines - as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the search for strange artifacts and animals to display in the wondercabinets of the period. By embracing the genres of satire and epigram, poets of the Elizabethan court risked their chances for political advancement, exposing themselves to the danger of being classified either as malcontents or as jesters who lacked the gravitas required of those in power. John Donne himself recognized both the risks and benefits of adopting the "admirable" style, as Biester shows in his close readings of the First and Fourth Satyres. Why did courtier-poets adopt such a dangerous form of self-representation? The answer, Biester maintains, lies in an extraordinary confluence of developments in both poetics and the interpenetrating spheres of the culture at large, which made the pursuit of wonder through style unusually attractive, even necessary. In a postfeudal but still aristocratic culture, he says, the ability to astound through language performed the validating function that was once supplied by the ability to fight. Combining the insights of the new historicism with traditional literary scholarship, Biester perceives the rise of metaphysical style as a social as well as aesthetic event.

     
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  3. Lyric wonder
    rhetoric and wit in renaissance english poetry
    Author: Biester, James
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, NY [u.a.]

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0801433134
    RVK Categories: HI 1249
    Edition: 1. publ
    Series: Rhetoric and society
    Subjects: Englisch; Lyrik; Geschichte 1500-1650; ; Metaphysical poets; ; Donne, John; Lyrik; Geschichte 1590-1650;
    Other subjects: Array; Array; Array; Rhetoric, Renaissance; Array
    Scope: X, 226 S.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-220) and index