Unread Herrings

Thomas Nashe and the Prosaics of the Real

James Nielson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

1994
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-2254-1 (ISBN)

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This book offers a tactical un-reading, or de-interpretation, of the stylistic and rhetorical excess traditionally associated with the Elizabethan pamphleteer Thomas Nashe. It attempts to demonstrate that, for all their verbal and intellectual perversity, Nashe's texts are not actually about themselves but about material reality and ordinary life. Written with an often uproariously Rabelaisian bravura worthy of Nashe himslef, Unread Herrings explores the experience of actually reading Nashe (as opposed to doing readings of him). In a deft reversal of the usual critical strategy, Nielson uses the reality effects in Nashe's premodern prose to interrogate and revise contemporary theoretical conceptions of textuality, and the political and aesthetic dispensations of postmodernism.

The Author: James Nielson is a former Mellon Fellow in the Humanities and postdoctoral fellow at McGill University. He presently teaches at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Nielson has also published on Gabriel Harvey, Nicholas Breton, and William Kemp, and is currently interested in the idea of Renaissance Other-Fashioning as it is manifested in the works of these and other more or less obscure figures.

Reihe/Serie	Renaissance and Baroque ; 11
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	490 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-8204-2254-1 / 0820422541
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-2254-1 / 9780820422541
Zustand	Neuware