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The Inarticulate Renaissance : Language Trouble in an Age of Eloquence / Carla Mazzio.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) : 5 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812241389
  • 9780812293401
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9/003
LOC classification:
  • PR418.E45 M39 2009eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on The Text -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Renaissance of Mumbling -- Chapter Two. From Fault to Figure -- Chapter Three. Disarticulating Community -- Chapter Four. Acting in the Passive Voice -- Chapter Five. Feeling Inarticulate -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary: The Inarticulate Renaissance explores the conceptual potential of the disabled utterance in the English literary Renaissance. What might it have meant, in the sixteenth-century "age of eloquence," to speak indistinctly; to mumble to oneself or to God; to speak unintelligibly to a lover, a teacher, a court of law; or to be utterly dumfounded in the face of new words, persons, situations, and things? This innovative book maps out a "Renaissance" otherwise eclipsed by cultural and literary-critical investments in a period defined by the impact of classical humanism, Reformation poetics, and the flourishing of vernacular languages and literatures.For Carla Mazzio, the specter of the inarticulate was part of a culture grappling with the often startlingly incoherent dimensions of language practices and ideologies in the humanities, religion, law, historiography, print, and vernacular speech. Through a historical analysis of forms of failed utterance, as they informed and were recast in sixteenth-century drama, her book foregrounds the inarticulate as a central subject of cultural history and dramatic innovation. Playwrights from Nicholas Udall to William Shakespeare, while exposing ideological fictions through which articulate and inarticulate became distinguished, also transformed apparent challenges to "articulate" communication into occasions for cultivating new forms of expression and audition.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on The Text -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Renaissance of Mumbling -- Chapter Two. From Fault to Figure -- Chapter Three. Disarticulating Community -- Chapter Four. Acting in the Passive Voice -- Chapter Five. Feeling Inarticulate -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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The Inarticulate Renaissance explores the conceptual potential of the disabled utterance in the English literary Renaissance. What might it have meant, in the sixteenth-century "age of eloquence," to speak indistinctly; to mumble to oneself or to God; to speak unintelligibly to a lover, a teacher, a court of law; or to be utterly dumfounded in the face of new words, persons, situations, and things? This innovative book maps out a "Renaissance" otherwise eclipsed by cultural and literary-critical investments in a period defined by the impact of classical humanism, Reformation poetics, and the flourishing of vernacular languages and literatures.For Carla Mazzio, the specter of the inarticulate was part of a culture grappling with the often startlingly incoherent dimensions of language practices and ideologies in the humanities, religion, law, historiography, print, and vernacular speech. Through a historical analysis of forms of failed utterance, as they informed and were recast in sixteenth-century drama, her book foregrounds the inarticulate as a central subject of cultural history and dramatic innovation. Playwrights from Nicholas Udall to William Shakespeare, while exposing ideological fictions through which articulate and inarticulate became distinguished, also transformed apparent challenges to "articulate" communication into occasions for cultivating new forms of expression and audition.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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