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Author: Christopher Pye
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.363kg
ISBN: 9780823265053
ISBN 10: 0823265056
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 02 March 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
In a forceful reconsideration of the aesthetic as itself a site of political thought, Pye is throwing down the gauntlet against the prevailing climate of historicist work in early modern literary criticism, which has placed the Renaissance before the arrival of the aesthetic as a category. -Andrew Daniel, Johns Hopkins UniversityDrawing on a rich and wide-ranging selection of important works from Leonardo da Vinci to Thomas Hobbes s Leviathan, through the plays of Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, and Shakespeare, Christopher Pye makes a powerful case for the existence of an autonomous early modern aesthetic prior to Kant, through readings that are highly attentive to textual detail and theoretically informed by thinkers from philosophy, political theory, and psychoanalysis. --Philip Lorenz, Cornell University
A learned, ambitious, sharply argued, and consequential book.In a forceful reconsideration of the aesthetic as itself a site of political thought, Pye is throwing down the gauntlet against the prevailing climate of historicist work in early modern literary criticism, which has placed the Renaissance before the arrival of the aesthetic as a category. -Andrew Daniel, Johns Hopkins University Drawing on a rich and wide-ranging selection of important works from Leonardo da Vinci to Thomas Hobbes s Leviathan, through the plays of Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, and Shakespeare, Christopher Pye makes a powerful case for the existence of an autonomous early modern aesthetic prior to Kant, through readings that are highly attentive to textual detail and theoretically informed by thinkers from philosophy, political theory, and psychoanalysis. --Philip Lorenz, Cornell University
In a forceful reconsideration of 'the aesthetic' as itself a site of political thought, Pye is throwing down the gauntlet against the prevailing climate of historicist work in early modern literary criticism, which has placed the Renaissance before the arrival of 'the aesthetic' as a category. -Andrew Daniel, Johns Hopkins University
Author Information
Christopher Pye is Class of 1924 Professor of English at Williams College. He is the author of The Regal Phantasm: Shakespeare and the Politics of Spectacle and The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture.
