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9780748636846 English 0748636846 Shows how Renaissance writers and artists struggled to reconcile past traditions with experiences of 'discovery'.In what ways have colonial and postcolonial studies transformed our perceptions of early modern European texts and images? How have those perceptions enriched our broader understanding of the colonial and the postcolonial? Focusing on English, Portuguese, Spanish and French colonial projects, Shankar Raman explains how encounters with new worlds and peoples irrevocably shaped both Europeans and their 'others'. There are in-depth case studies on: the Portuguese drama and epic of Gil Vicente and Luis Vaz de Camões; travel narratives and exotic engravings from Theodore de Bry's influential compilations; and the English plays and verse of Christopher Marlowe, John Donne and Richard Brome.Key Features* Introduces readers to the careful reading of visual sources as a complement to textual analysis* Emphasises the importance of comparative work in literary studies of colonialism: see especially the discussion of Adam Olearius' travels in Chapter 2 as well as the case studies of Portuguese literary texts and de Bry, This book focuses on the interplay between the discovery of new lands and the rediscovery of old texts, describing the parallel emergence of colonialism and its critique. Utilizing readings that range from Italian epics such as Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata to English Renaissance and Restoration dramas by Shakespeare and Behn, and from Renaissance uses of classical European texts by Virgil and Pliny, these examples carefully reconstruct key contexts and central issues of the Renaissance, such as court versus mercantile culture, intra-European rivalry, ethnicity, class and gender., This series examines how Postcolonial Studies reconfigures the major periods and areas of literature, the book relate key literary and cultural texts both to their historical and geographical contexts, and to contemporary issues of neocolonialism and global inequality. Each volume not only provides a comprehensive survey of the existing field of scholarship and debate, but is also an original intervention in its own right. Each book includes: a time li an introductory literature survey; discussion of critical, theoretical, historical and political debates; exemplary critical readings of literary texts, and further reading. Shows how Renaissance writers and artists struggled to reconcile past traditions with experiences of 'discovery' In what ways have colonial and postcolonial studies transformed our perceptions of early modern European texts and images? How have those perceptions enriched our broader understanding of the colonial and the postcolonial? Focusing on English, Portuguese, Spanish and French colonial projects, Shankar Raman explains how encounters with new worlds and peoples irrevocably shaped both Europeans and their 'others'. There are in-depth case studies on: the Portuguese drama and epic of Gil Vicente and Luis Vaz de Cam�es; travel narratives and exotic engravings from Theodore de Bry's influential compilations; and the English plays and verse of Christopher Marlowe, John Donne and Richard Brome. Introduces readers to the careful reading of visual sources as a complement to textual analysis Emphasises the importance of comparative work in literary studies of colonialism: see especially the discussion of Adam Olearius' travels in Chapter 2 as well as the case studies of Portuguese literary texts and de Bry Book jacket., Treating the Renaissance as also the period that saw the birth of European colonialism, this book focuses on the interplay between the discovery of new lands and the re-discovery of old texts. It describes the parallel emergence of colonialism and its critique, and traces the persistence of a dynamic relationship between the colonial and the postcolonial in contemporary literary criticism. In surveying a range of early modern texts and contemporary critical debates surrounding them, it insists upon diversity and difference, attending to the multiple origins and trajectories that characterize both the colonial and the postcolonial. Its detailed case studies of canonical and non-canonical texts, drawn from a variety of genres, offer careful reconstructions of key contexts - such as court versus mercantile culture or intra-European rivalry - and central issues, such as ethnicity, class and gender and the ideological uses of the past. Throughout, the book stresses the complex place of literature and literary form in negotiating historical ruptures in the past and the present. Key Features* Provides an overview of theories of colonialism and postcolonialism, with particular emphasis on their application to Renaissance literature* Discusses a range of European literatures that reflect and shape the processes of imperial expansion and colonization* Contextualizes canonical works by such authors as Shakespeare and Milton in terms both of early modern discourses of colonialism and from contemporary postcolonial perspectives* Offers cogent introductions to central debates and interventions in colonial and postcolonial studies that have emerged from and shaped our understanding of Renaissance literature
9780748636846 English 0748636846 Shows how Renaissance writers and artists struggled to reconcile past traditions with experiences of 'discovery'.In what ways have colonial and postcolonial studies transformed our perceptions of early modern European texts and images? How have those perceptions enriched our broader understanding of the colonial and the postcolonial? Focusing on English, Portuguese, Spanish and French colonial projects, Shankar Raman explains how encounters with new worlds and peoples irrevocably shaped both Europeans and their 'others'. There are in-depth case studies on: the Portuguese drama and epic of Gil Vicente and Luis Vaz de Camões; travel narratives and exotic engravings from Theodore de Bry's influential compilations; and the English plays and verse of Christopher Marlowe, John Donne and Richard Brome.Key Features* Introduces readers to the careful reading of visual sources as a complement to textual analysis* Emphasises the importance of comparative work in literary studies of colonialism: see especially the discussion of Adam Olearius' travels in Chapter 2 as well as the case studies of Portuguese literary texts and de Bry, This book focuses on the interplay between the discovery of new lands and the rediscovery of old texts, describing the parallel emergence of colonialism and its critique. Utilizing readings that range from Italian epics such as Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata to English Renaissance and Restoration dramas by Shakespeare and Behn, and from Renaissance uses of classical European texts by Virgil and Pliny, these examples carefully reconstruct key contexts and central issues of the Renaissance, such as court versus mercantile culture, intra-European rivalry, ethnicity, class and gender., This series examines how Postcolonial Studies reconfigures the major periods and areas of literature, the book relate key literary and cultural texts both to their historical and geographical contexts, and to contemporary issues of neocolonialism and global inequality. Each volume not only provides a comprehensive survey of the existing field of scholarship and debate, but is also an original intervention in its own right. Each book includes: a time li an introductory literature survey; discussion of critical, theoretical, historical and political debates; exemplary critical readings of literary texts, and further reading. Shows how Renaissance writers and artists struggled to reconcile past traditions with experiences of 'discovery' In what ways have colonial and postcolonial studies transformed our perceptions of early modern European texts and images? How have those perceptions enriched our broader understanding of the colonial and the postcolonial? Focusing on English, Portuguese, Spanish and French colonial projects, Shankar Raman explains how encounters with new worlds and peoples irrevocably shaped both Europeans and their 'others'. There are in-depth case studies on: the Portuguese drama and epic of Gil Vicente and Luis Vaz de Cam�es; travel narratives and exotic engravings from Theodore de Bry's influential compilations; and the English plays and verse of Christopher Marlowe, John Donne and Richard Brome. Introduces readers to the careful reading of visual sources as a complement to textual analysis Emphasises the importance of comparative work in literary studies of colonialism: see especially the discussion of Adam Olearius' travels in Chapter 2 as well as the case studies of Portuguese literary texts and de Bry Book jacket., Treating the Renaissance as also the period that saw the birth of European colonialism, this book focuses on the interplay between the discovery of new lands and the re-discovery of old texts. It describes the parallel emergence of colonialism and its critique, and traces the persistence of a dynamic relationship between the colonial and the postcolonial in contemporary literary criticism. In surveying a range of early modern texts and contemporary critical debates surrounding them, it insists upon diversity and difference, attending to the multiple origins and trajectories that characterize both the colonial and the postcolonial. Its detailed case studies of canonical and non-canonical texts, drawn from a variety of genres, offer careful reconstructions of key contexts - such as court versus mercantile culture or intra-European rivalry - and central issues, such as ethnicity, class and gender and the ideological uses of the past. Throughout, the book stresses the complex place of literature and literary form in negotiating historical ruptures in the past and the present. Key Features* Provides an overview of theories of colonialism and postcolonialism, with particular emphasis on their application to Renaissance literature* Discusses a range of European literatures that reflect and shape the processes of imperial expansion and colonization* Contextualizes canonical works by such authors as Shakespeare and Milton in terms both of early modern discourses of colonialism and from contemporary postcolonial perspectives* Offers cogent introductions to central debates and interventions in colonial and postcolonial studies that have emerged from and shaped our understanding of Renaissance literature