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Untutored Lines: The Making of the English Epyllion (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture)
Weaver
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Hardcover. Provides a new understanding of the epyllion as a genre exploiting the subversive potential of various educational thresholds, such as the transition from grammar to rhetoric. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 240 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500. the Making of the English Epyllion. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. 232 pages. Provides a new understanding of the epyllion as a genre exploiting the subversive potential of various educational thresholds, such as the transition from grammar to rhetoric. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Dimension: 163 x 240 x 19. Weight: 500.
A compelling cultural reinterpretation of humanist discourses of boyhood The English epyllion, the highly erotic mythological verse that swept the London literary scene in the 1590s, is as much about rhetoric as about sex. So argues William Weaver in this fascinating study of Renaissance education and poetry. Rhetoric, moreover, is erotic. Far being merely formal, rhetoric is the key to deciphering the cultural meanings of an enigmatic genre. Weaver attends to one of the epyllion's defining dramas: boys in transition to adulthood. Whereas recent studies of the epyllion have posited sexuality as the primary, even exclusive, means of representing beautiful ... Read more
A compelling cultural reinterpretation of humanist discourses of boyhood The English epyllion, the highly erotic mythological verse that swept the London literary scene in the 1590s, is as much about rhetoric as about sex. So argues William Weaver in this fascinating study of Renaissance education and poetry. Rhetoric, moreover, is erotic. Far being merely formal, rhetoric is the key to deciphering the cultural meanings of an enigmatic genre. Weaver attends to one of the epyllion's defining dramas: boys in transition to adulthood. Whereas recent studies of the epyllion have posited sexuality as the primary, even exclusive, means of representing beautiful ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748644650
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V9780748644650
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About Weaver
William P. Weaver is an assistant professor of literature in the Honors College of Baylor University, where he teaches Great Texts. His articles on Renaissance poetry and rhetoric have appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Studies in Philology, Spenser Studies, and Rhetorica.
Reviews for Untutored Lines: The Making of the English Epyllion (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture)
William Weaver's book is a learned contribution to the growing reinvestigation of humanist pedagogy. He draws much-needed attention to an under-examined, but influential, school text - Aphthonius's Progymnasmata - in ways that deepen our understanding of the connection between rhetorical training and masculinity in Ovidian minor epics.
Lynn Enterline, Vanderbilt University This book offers a highly original rewriting of ... Read more
Lynn Enterline, Vanderbilt University This book offers a highly original rewriting of ... Read more