Name: Magical Imaginations: Instrumental Aesthetics in the English Renaissance (en Inglés)
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Author: Guenther, Genevieve
ISBN: 9781442642416

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Magical Imaginations: Instrumental Aesthetics in the English Renaissance (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Genevieve Guenther

Editorial

University of Toronto Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

184

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.1 x 15.7 x 2.0 cm

Peso

0.41 kg.

ISBN

1442642416

ISBN13

9781442642416

Categorías

Estilo medieval
Estudios literarios: antiguos, clásicos y medievales

Magical Imaginations: Instrumental Aesthetics in the English Renaissance (en Inglés)

Genevieve Guenther (Autor) · University of Toronto Press · Tapa Dura

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In the English Renaissance, poetry was imagined to inspire moral behaviour in its readers, but the efficacy of poetry was also linked to 'conjuration, ' the theologically dangerous practice of invoking spirits with words. Magical Imaginations explores how major writers of the period - including Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare - negotiated this troubling link between poetry and magic in their attempts to transform readers and audiences with the power of art. Through analyses of texts ranging from sermons and theological treatises to medical tracts and legal documents, Genevieve Guenther sheds new light on magic as a cultural practice in early modern England. She demonstrates that magic was a highly pragmatic, even cynical endeavor infiltrating unexpected spheres - including Elizabethan taxation policy and Jacobean political philosophy. With this new understanding of early modern magic, and a fresh context for compelling readings of classic literary works, Magical Imaginations reveals the central importance of magic to English literary history.