Chamber Music: Elizabethan Sonnet-Sequences and the Pleasure of Criticism

Roger Kuin

Published by University of Toronto Press 1998

Chamber Music

Elizabethan Sonnet-Sequences and the Pleasure of Criticism

Roger Kuin

In the series Heritage

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442672826

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About this book

A book of post-modern criticism, influenced by many modern literary critics, including Barthes and Eco, that analyses the sonnet sequences of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare from an interpretative angle as well as reevaluating the Renaissance sonnets.

Author / Editor information

Kuin Roger :

Roger Kuin is a member of the Department of English, McLaughlin College, York University.

Reviews

A. Kent Hieatt, Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario:

'[Chamber Music] starts with the premise that the present direction of writing about literature in literature-departments is self-defeating: on the newest critical topics we are solemnly talking only to smaller and smaller numbers of each other, about matters that no one else can be interested in, and that no social funding structure will eventually support more than marginally. Professor Kuin tries to find a way to reinoculate all of us with the humane joy of reading which makes a canonical text a liberating self-discovery, and which can begin to raise the lives of the young barbarians we are supposed to be teaching from clumping nescience to what G.B. Shaw called an enlightened levity.'

Donald Cheney, Department of English, University of Massachusetts:

'[Chamber Music] starts with the premise that the present direction of writing about literature in literature-departments is self-defeating: on the newest critical topics we are solemnly talking only to smaller and smaller numbers of each other, about matters that no one else can be interested in, and that no social funding structure will eventually support more than marginally. Professor Kuin tries to find a way to reinoculate all of us with the humane joy of reading which makes a canonical text a liberating self-discovery, and which can begin to raise the lives of the young barbarians we are supposed to be teaching from clumping nescience to what G.B. Shaw called an enlightened levity.'

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
1. Prelude a new intellectual art Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Three easy pieces sonnet analysis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
3. Polyphony the plural of the text Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
4. Tempo/Sequenza textual time in Astrophil and Stella Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
5. Two-part invention love/ruins/Shake-Speares Sonnets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
6. Theme with variations skin/deep: beauty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
7. From the New World Will Archer's diary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
8. Bin Heldenleben courtier, text, and death Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
9. Death and the maiden architecture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
10. Divertimento the text as desiring-machine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
11. Four-part fugue indeterminacy and undecideability Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
12. Encore irregardless Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
Appendix: Discourse and its choices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 288

eBook

Published: February 18, 1998
ISBN: 9781442672826