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Conference Paper: Renaissance Authors Addressing Their Books
Title | Renaissance Authors Addressing Their Books |
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Authors | |
Issue Date | 2012 |
Publisher | The Renaissance Society of America (RSA). |
Citation | The 58th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA 2012), Washington, DC., 22–24 March 2012. In Program and Abstract Book, 2012, p. 354 How to Cite? |
Abstract | My paper reexamines a poetic conceit that recurs in Renaissance poetry: the author
addressing his book as an agent, a kind of person capable of representing him, and
therefore, subject to instruction on comportment. This conceit, which comprises
several fi gures, including prosopopoeia and apostrophe, is integral to understanding
poetry as a causal force during the period. Specifi cally, it refl ects anxiety about
readers’ interpretative latitude, their supplanting authorial intention with willful
invention. The command “Go, little book” indexes all that can go wrong when
sending one’s work out into the world, from misprision to punishment. In dialogue
with the few critics who have written about the device, and with attention to its
particular operation in the works of Hawes, Spenser, Ben Jonson, and Milton, I
argue that the attempt to control, or moderate, readers’ responses shows a revolt
against appreciable skepticism about the capacity of texts to change readers at all. |
Description | Session: Authorial Voices |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/190608 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Blumberg, FL | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-17T15:32:56Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2013-09-17T15:32:56Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | The 58th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA 2012), Washington, DC., 22–24 March 2012. In Program and Abstract Book, 2012, p. 354 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/190608 | - |
dc.description | Session: Authorial Voices | - |
dc.description.abstract | My paper reexamines a poetic conceit that recurs in Renaissance poetry: the author addressing his book as an agent, a kind of person capable of representing him, and therefore, subject to instruction on comportment. This conceit, which comprises several fi gures, including prosopopoeia and apostrophe, is integral to understanding poetry as a causal force during the period. Specifi cally, it refl ects anxiety about readers’ interpretative latitude, their supplanting authorial intention with willful invention. The command “Go, little book” indexes all that can go wrong when sending one’s work out into the world, from misprision to punishment. In dialogue with the few critics who have written about the device, and with attention to its particular operation in the works of Hawes, Spenser, Ben Jonson, and Milton, I argue that the attempt to control, or moderate, readers’ responses shows a revolt against appreciable skepticism about the capacity of texts to change readers at all. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | The Renaissance Society of America (RSA). | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, RSA 2012 | en_US |
dc.title | Renaissance Authors Addressing Their Books | en_US |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Blumberg, FL: blumberg@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Blumberg, FL=rp01579 | en_US |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 223954 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 354 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 354 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |