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 ...
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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-Fran�ois 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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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 215 p. Contains: Line drawings, black & white. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2010039556 Type of material Book Main title Go figure: energies, forms, and institutions in the early modern world / edited by Judith H. Anderson and Joan Pong Linton. Published/Created New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. Description 215 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 9780823233496 (cloth: alk. paper) 9780823233519 (ebook) LC classification PR421. G6 2011 Related names Anderson, Judith H. Linton, Joan Pong. Contents Spenser's giant and the new science / Mary Thomas Crane--The sacramental neuter and the missing body in Robert Southwell's poetics / Lowell Gallagher--Reconfiguring Figuring: John Donne as Narrative Poet / Heather Dubrow--The Narrative Turn against Metaphor: Metonymy, Identification, and Roger Boyle's Parthenissa / Amelia Zurcher--Caterpillage: Death and Truthiness in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting / Harry Berger, Jr. --Figuring belief: George Herbert's devotional creatures / David Glimp--Entertaining Friends: Falstaff's Parasitology / Donald Hedrick--Skin Merchants: Jack Cade's Futures and the Figural Politics of Henry VI, Part II / Julian Yates. LC Subjects English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism. English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Semantics. Symbolism in literature. Semiotics and literature. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-203) and index. Dewey class no. 820.9/34 Geographic area code e-uk-en
