Reading sensations in early modern E...
Craik, Katharine A.

 

  • Reading sensations in early modern England[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 820.9/353
    書名/作者: Reading sensations in early modern England/ Katharine A. Craik.
    作者: Craik, Katharine A.
    出版者: Basingstoke ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2007.
    面頁冊數: xi, 200 p.
    附註: This study examines the power of literature to affect readers' minds, bodies and souls, the theory of reading, and of mind and body.
    標題: English literature - History and criticism - Early modern, 1500-1700
    標題: English literature - Psychological aspects.
    標題: Reading - Psychological aspects.
    標題: Reading - Physiological aspects.
    標題: Literature and morals.
    標題: Mind and body.
    標題: Reader-response criticism.
    ISBN: 9780230206083
    ISBN: 0230206085
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-192) and index.
    內容註: The word and the flesh in early modern England -- Beneath the skin: George Puttenham, Sir Philip Sidney and the experience of English poetry -- Arming the reader: Sir Philip Sidney and the literature of choler -- 'These spots are but the letters': John Donne and the medicaments ofelegy -- Eating his words: Thomas Coryat and the art of indigestion --Touching stories: Richard Braithwait, Thomas Cranley and the origins of English pornography.
    摘要、提要註: Reading Sensations in Early Modern England explores the power of literature to affect, for better or worse, readers' minds, bodies and souls. Considering texts by a broad range of early modern writers, including Sir Philip Sidney and John Donne, Katharine A. Craik explores the ways in which literature not only inflamed the emotions, but also transformed the colour, temperature and texture of the material body. Although such ideas originate in antiquity, the authors considered here are immersed in Renaissance theories of the passions and humours, and subscribeespecially to the idea that psychological and physiological feeling are inseparable. Each makes bold new constructions about theability of literature to influence the complexional, appetitive and humoral make-upof English gentlemen, and all are animated by the notion that sensation is a vital force in literary reception and the world at large. Reading emerges not only as an emotionally and physically transformative experience, but as an ethically and morally nuanced one as well.
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