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035			_a(DE-B1597)9780823272686
035			_a(DE-B1597)555105
035			_a(OCoLC)961105731
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
050		4	_aPR421 _b.M29 2017eb
072		7	_aLIT019000 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a820.9/003 _223
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aMcEleney, Corey _eautore
245	1	0	_aFutile Pleasures : _bEarly Modern Literature and the Limits of Utility / _cCorey McEleney.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bFordham University Press, _c[2017]
264		4	_c©2017
300			_a1 online resource (256 p.)
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tFutilitarianism: An Introduction -- _t1. Pleasure without Profit -- _t2. Bonfire of the Vanities -- _t3. Art for Nothing's Sake -- _t4. Spenser's Unhappy Ends -- _t5. Beyond Sublimation -- _tCoda: Less Matter, More Art -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aHonorable Mention, 2018 MLA Prize for a First BookAgainst the defensive backdrop of countless apologetic justifications for the value of literature and the humanities, Futile Pleasures reframes the current conversation by returning to the literary culture of early modern England, a culture whose defensive posture toward literature rivals and shapes our own.During the Renaissance, poets justified the value of their work on the basis of the notion that the purpose of poetry is to please and instruct, that it must be both delightful and useful. At the same time, many of these writers faced the possibility that the pleasures of literature may be in conflict with the demand to be useful and valuable. Analyzing the rhetoric of pleasure and the pleasure of rhetoric in texts by William Shakespeare, Roger Ascham, Thomas Nashe, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton, McEleney explores the ambivalence these writers display toward literature's potential for useless, frivolous vanity. Tracing that ambivalence forward to the modern era, this book also shows how contemporary critics have recapitulated Renaissance humanist ideals about aesthetic value. Against a longstanding tradition that defensively advocates for the redemptive utility of literature, Futile Pleasures both theorizes and performs the queer pleasures of futility. Without ever losing sight of the costs of those pleasures, McEleney argues that playing with futility may be one way of moving beyond the impasses that modern humanists, like their early modern counterparts, have always faced.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650		0	_aEnglish literature _yEarly modern, 1500-1700 _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zEngland _xHistory _y16th century.
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zEngland _xHistory _y17th century.
650		0	_aPleasure in literature.
650		0	_aSenses and sensation in literature.
650		4	_aLiterary Studies.
650		4	_aQueer Theory.
650		4	_aRenaissance Studies.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance. _2bisacsh
653			_aRenaissance Literature.
653			_adeconstruction.
653			_afutility.
653			_apleasure.
653			_aqueer theory.
653			_aromance.
653			_avanity.
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823272686
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823272686
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823272686/original
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