Go Figure: Energies, Forms, and Institutions in the Early Modern World

Published by Fordham University Press 2011

Go Figure

Energies, Forms, and Institutions in the Early Modern World

Edited by: Judith H. Anderson and Joan Pong Linton

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291694

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Go Figure addresses theories of the figure and practices of figuration ranging from classical rhetoric and biblical exegesis to semiotics, psychoanalysis, and socio-politics. Situating theory in history, the essays in this volume focus on verbal and visual texts from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and they explore science, sacramental poetics, romance and lyric narrative, and the natural world in still lifes, prayer, parasites, and politics. They engage the work of poets, painters, storytellers, and playwrights. While the theories that inform them are many and various, they share a point of reference in the work of Jean-François Lyotard, who theorizes the co-presence in language of the figure and discourse: Lyotard’s figure relates to discourse as image emerges in description, as sense accompanies signification, and as energies shape texts from within. The original essays invited for the volume show how figural energies and forms inhabit both texts and the practices that produce them—how figures are fundamentally in play in the making of subjects, societies, traditions, and institutions.

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Introduction Judith H. Anderson and Joan Pong Linton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Spenser’s Giant and the New Science Mary Thomas Crane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
The Sacramental Neuter and the Missing Body in Robert Southwell’s Poetics Lowell Gallagher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Reconfiguring Figuring: John Donne as Narrative Poet Heather Dubrow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
The Narrative Turn against Metaphor: Metonymy, Identification, and Roger Boyle’s Parthenissa Amelia Zurcher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Caterpillage: Death and Truthiness in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting Harry Berger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Figuring Belief: George Herbert’s Devotional Creatures David Glimp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
Entertaining Friends: Falstaff ’s Parasitology Donald Hedrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Skin Merchants: Jack Cade’s Futures and the Figural Politics of Henry VI, Part II Julian Yates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
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- Main content: 228

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Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9780823291694