Criticism and theory Flashcards
What does Gavin Alexander suggest about Sidney’s conception of reading?
There is an ‘association between Platonic love and hermeneutic skill’
How is Alexander’s view of reading in Sidney complicated?
Platonic ideals in humanism risk being hijacked by the indulgent pleasure of reading
How does Arthur Marotti characterise Sidney’s ‘Astrophil and Stella’?
a ‘heterocosm of love’, an ‘imaginative and social retreat more hospitable to him than was the larger world’
What does Samuel Fallon say about the function of literary personae?
‘Elizabethan England’s personae dwell in and give life to the social realisation of their structures of communication
What is a function of Sidney and Spenser’s personae, according to Samuel Fallon?
To ‘hold at bay more distant readers’
What is the function of Early Modern paratext according to W.E. Slights?
‘to make texts more accessible to the “general reader”’
What is the function of an early modern preface, according to Gerard Genette?
to ‘make known an intention’
What does Sidney refer to a mimetic poem as in ‘The Defense of Poesy’?
a ‘speaking picture’
What idea does Annabel Patterson posit about ideas of literariness and accessibility in the early modern period?
The more “open” a text is, giving into public demands, the less literary it is.
What do Sullivan and Woodbridge say about the implications of print?
‘While print would seem to fix ideas, to render them permanent and more widely available, the printing press’s effects often suggested the opposite.’
What does Annabel Patterson call Milton’s ‘Areopagitica’?
A ‘manifesto for indeterminacy’
What does Christina Wald say about the significance of the Eucharist in the early modern mind?
‘transubstantiation kept haunting the Elizabethans’
What does Sidney in ‘Defense of Poesy’ say about attaining perfection?
‘Our erected will maketh us know what perfection is. Our infected will keepeth us from reaching it’
