29/08 The Sense of Early Modern Writing. Rhetoric, Poetics, Aesthetics

Mark ROBSON, The Sense of Early Modern Writing. Rhetoric, Poetics, Aesthetics, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 224 p. ISBN 0-7190-6946-7 RÉSUMÉ In The Sense of Early Modern Writing, Mark Robson pursues the relation between the concept of the ‘early modern’ and modernity, tracing the complex interactions of post-Romantic, philosophical aesthetics and early modern rhetoric and poetics. The book therefore questions the status of what we now think of as literary texts in a period prior to the emergence of literature as a category. TABLE DES MATIÈRES Introduction: The sense of early modern writing * Part I: Sense’s reading * Rhetoric, in more than one sense *  Is there an early modern aesthetic? * Poetry’s defences * Part II: Reading’s senses * To sign: Sir Thomas More * Swansongs * To hear with eyes * Blind faith * Epilogue A PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Mark Robson teaches at the University of [...] Lire la suite sur Infos Fabula

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