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Places of form in Early Modern Poetics: art, mind, and voice
- Abstract:
- ‘Form’ is a notoriously capacious, unreliable, and yet necessary commonplace of both modern and early modern critical vocabulary. This essay explores the flexible and imaginatively generative ways in which the concept migrated from discourses of philosophy and logic into literary criticism and practice, drawing on a range of writers of different nationalities from across the early modern period, but focusing especially on English literature of the Elizabethan fin-de-siècle. It argues, in particular, that one of form’s principal places in that exciting cultural moment was the mind of the poet: the mind trained, structured, or ‘informed’ by poetic theory; the mind as a place which moulds and shapes the materials of language and representation into communicative forms; the mind as the source for the forms of utterance we call ‘style’.
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198834687.003.0008
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- Oxford University Press
- Host title:
- Places of Early Modern Criticism
- Pages:
- 112-124
- Chapter number:
- 7
- Publication date:
- 2021-05-06
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- 9780191894749
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- 9780198834687
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- Copyright holder:
- Michael Hetherington
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- © Michael Hetherington.
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the book chapter. The final version is available online from Oxford University Press at https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198834687.003.0008
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