The Art of Picturing in Early Modern English Literature

Herausgeber: Caporicci, Camilla; Sabatier, Armelle

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Produktbeschreibung

Written by an international group of highly regarded scholars and rooted in the field of intermedial approaches to literary studies, this volume explores the complex aesthetic process of "picturing" in early modern English literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780367425197
• ISBN-10: 036742519X
• Artikelnr.: 58310277

Autorenporträt

Camilla Caporicci is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Padova, adjunct professor at the University of Perugia, and a former Humboldt fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. Among her many publications are The Dark Lady: La rivoluzione Shakespeariana nei Sonetti alla Dama Bruna (2013), the edited volume Sicut Lilium inter Spinas: Literature and Religion in the Renaissance (2018), and the Introduction and Notes to the Bompiani edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets (2019). Armelle Sabatier is Lecturer at the University of Paris Panthéon Assas. She is the author of Shakespeare and Visual Culture. A Dictionary (Bloomsbury, 2016). She has published varied articles on the interrelation of visual arts and early modern drama, and on the representation of colour on the Elizabethan stage.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Aknowledgements
Introduction. Camilla Caporicci and Armelle Sabatier.
PART I: To Look or not to Look at Pictures?
Chapter 1. Cristiano Ragni.
An Edifying "Pictura Loquens": Alberico Gentili's Commentatio and his
Defence of Drama in Elizabethan Oxford
Chapter 2. James A. Knapp.
Looking At and Through Pictures in Donne's Lyrics
Chapter 3. Chloe Porter.
"A Painted Devil": The Matter and Making of Images in Macbeth
Chapter 4. B. J Sokol.
Mirrors, Pictures, Optics, Shakespeare
PART II: Confluences: English Texts and European Paintings
Chapter 5. Rocco Coronato.
Over the Edge: Shakespeare, Judith, and the Virtuous Use of Female
Indiscretion and Deception
Chapter 6. Fiammetta Dionisio.
"Be Her Sense but as a Monument": Lost Icons and Substitutive Figures in
Shakespeare's Cymbeline
Chapter 7. Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard.
The Notion of Picturing in Early Modern Literature: The Case of the
Miniaturist Isaac Oliver (c.1585-1617)
PART III: Portraits on the Page and the Stage
Chapter 8. Camilla Caporicci.
"Take this picture which I heere present thee": The Art of Portraiture in
the Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences
Chapter 9. Catherine Belsey.
Narrative Portraiture
Chapter 10. Armelle Sabatier.
Picturing in Little or in Stone? Miniature versus Monument in The Triall of
Chevalry (Anonymous, 1605)
Chapter 11. Emanuel Stelzer.
Performing Portraits: The Portrait as Prop and Its Performative Dimension
in Early Modern English Drama
PART IV: The Power of Visual and Verbal
Chapter 12. Rosanna Camerlingo.
Prospero's Rainbow: Political Miracles in The Tempest
Chapter 13. Keir Elam.
"Picture is the invention of heaven": Ben Jonson and the Paradox of the
Visual
Index