HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):

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Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):

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Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

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Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):

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Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Romanticism (c.1785-1830):
bullet Romantic Literature
bullet Mid-Century & Fin de Siècle (1830-1900) Thought:
bullet 'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Analytic Philosophy
bullet Continental Theory:
bullet Idealism
bullet Marxism
bullet Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics
bullet Psychoanalysis
bullet (Post-)Structuralisms:
bullet Deconstruction
bullet Deleuzean Theory
bullet Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)
bullet Foucauldian Discourse Theory
bullet Saussurean Semiology / Structuralism
bullet Structuralist Marxism
bullet Structuralist Psychoanalysis
bullet Feminist Theory
bullet Modernism, Myth & New Criticism
bullet Post-colonial Theory
bullet Pragmatism
 
bullet Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Asia
bullet East Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Europe
bullet Eastern Europe:
bullet Russia:
bullet Literature
bullet Northern Europe:
bullet Literature
bullet Southern Europe:
bullet Greece:
bullet Literature
bullet Italy:
bullet Literature
bullet Spain:
bullet Literature
bullet Western Europe:
bullet France:
bullet Literature
bullet Germany:
bullet Literature
bullet UK and Eire:
bullet Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

bullet Arabic/Islamic Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Israeli/Jewish Thought:
bullet Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

bullet African American Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

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Architecture

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Film

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Literature:

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Author

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Literary Form & Genre:

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Drama

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Poetry

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Prose

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Literary History, Intertextuality, Canonicity

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Metaliterature

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Reader

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Representation

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Music

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

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Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, & Logic

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Rhetoric, Discourse Theory, & Argumentation Theory

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Semiotics

 

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Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

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Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

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Psychology

 

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Gender

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Race

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Sexuality

 

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Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY

 

MORALITY:

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Morality and Literature

 

NATURE (NATURAL SCIENCES):

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Nature and Literature

 

RELIGION:

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Religion and Literature

 

SOCIETY (SOCIAL SCIENCES):

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Anthropology

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Cultural Studies

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Economics

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Human Geography

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Law

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Politics

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Sociology

 

SPORTS
 

GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS

CAREERS

CONFERENCES

JOURNALS

PHOTOS

PRIMARY SOURCES

SECONDARY SOURCES

TEACHING AND LEARNING

WWW GATEWAYS

 

 

RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
(c. 1400 - c. 1600)


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ASSOCIATIONS

AUTHORS

CONFERENCES

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2004:

  • Shakespeare and Philosophy, Forum for European Philosophy, London School of Economics, November 20

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JOURNALS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:
    • Witherspoon, Alexander, and Frank Warnke, eds.  Seventeenth Century Prose and Poetry
  • Selected Individual Works:

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:
  • Selected Individual Works:
    • General:
      • Babcock, Barbara The Reversible World: Symbolic Inversion in Art and Society
      • Barker, Francis The Tremulous Private Body: Essays on Subjection
      • Brown, Cedric, ed. Patronage, Politics, and Literary Traditions in England, 1558-1658
      • Burt, Richard, et al., eds. Enclosure Acts: Sexuality, Property and Culture in Early Modern England
      • Bush, Douglas The Renaissance and English Humanism
      • Corns, Thomas, ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell
      • De Grazia, Margaret, et al., eds. Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture
      • Demaray, John Cosmos and Epic Representation: Dante, Spenser, Milton and the Transformation of Renaissance Heroic Poetry
      • Dubrow, Heather Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and its Counterdiscourses
      • Dubrow, Heather, et al., eds. The Historical Renaissance: New Essays on Tudor and Stuart Literature and Culture
      • Garber, Marjorie, ed. Cannibals, Witches, Divorce: Estranging the Renaissance
      • Greenblatt, Stephen Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture
      • Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. The Power of Forms in the English Renaissance
      • Greenblatt, Stephen Renaissance Self-Fashioning
      • Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. Representing the Renaissance
      • Gregerson, Linda The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton and the Protestant Epic
      • Guillory, John Poetic Authority: Spenser, Milton and Literary History
      • Halperin, Richard The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation: English Renaissance Culture and the Genealogy of Capital
      • Helgerson, Richard Self-Crowned Laureates: Spenser, Jonson, Milton, and the Literary System
      • Kegl, Rosemary The Rhetoric of Concealment: Figuring Gender and Class in Renaissance Literature
      • Kinney, Arthur, et al., eds. Renaissance Historicism
      • Kristeller, Paul Oskar.  Renaissance Thought and the Arts: Collected Essays.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1964.
      • Leavis, F. R. Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry
      • Lytle, Guy, and Stephen Orgel, eds. Patronage in the Renaissance
      • Malcolmson, Christina, ed. Renaissance Poetry
      • Manley, Lawrence Literature and Culture in Early Modern London
      • Marcus, Leah The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defence of Old Holiday Pastimes
      • Norbrook, David Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance
      • Parfitt, George.  English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century
      • Parker, Patricia, et al., eds. Literary Theory / Renaissance Texts
      • Pask, Kevin The Emergence of the English Author
      • Patterson, Annabel Censorship and Interpretation: the Conditions of Writing and Reading in Early Modern England
      • Roche, Thomas Petrarch and the English Sonnet Tradition
      • Rogers, John The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton
      • Sinfield, Alan Faultlines: Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Dissident Reading
      • Stallybrass, Peter, et al., eds. The Politics and Poetics of Transgression
      • Strier, Richard Resistant Structures: Particularity, Radicalism and Renaissance Texts
      • Gary Waller English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century
      • Zunder, William, et al, eds. Writing and the English Renaissance
    • Sixteenth Century:
      • Alpers, Paul, ed. Elizabethan Poetry: Modern Essays in Criticism
      • Berry, Philippa Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen
      • Brown, John Russell, ed. Elizabethan Poetry
      • Crewe, Jonathan Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare
      • Ferry, Anne The ‘Inward’ Language: Sonnets of Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne
      • Hammond, Gerald, ed. Elizabethan Poetry: Lyric and Narrative
      • Heale, Elizabeth Wyatt, Surrey, and Early Tudor Poetry
      • Helgerson, Richard Forms of Nationhood: the Elizabethan Writing of England
      • Helgerson, Richard The Elizabethan Prodigals
      • Herman, P. C., eds. Rethinking the Henrician Era: Essays in Early Tudor Texts and Contexts
      • Inglis, Fred The Elizabethan Poets
      • Javitch, Daniel Poetry and Courtliness in Renaissance England
      • Lever, J. W. The Elizabethan Love Sonnet
      • Lewis, C. S. English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama
      • Montrose, Louis Adrian "'Eliza, Queene of Shepheardes', and 'the Pastoral of Power'" ELR 10 (1980): 153-182 (also in Arthur Kinney, et al., eds. Renaissance Historicism)
      • Montrose, Louis Adrian "The Elizabethan Subject and the Spenserian Text" (in Patricia Parker, et al., eds. Literary Theory / Renaissance Texts)
      • Montrose, Louis Adrian "A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Shaping Fantasies of Elizabethan Culture: Gender, Power, Form" (in Stephen Greenblatt, ed. Representing the Renaissance)
      • Montrose, Louis Adrian "Of Gentlemen and Shepherds: The Politics of Elizabethan Pastoral Form" ELH 50 (1983): 415-459
      • Montrose, Louis Adrian The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre
      • Pearsall, Derek, ed. Chaucer to Spenser: a Critical Reader
      • Peterson, Douglas The English Lyric from Wyatt to Donne
      • Spearing, A. C. Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry
      • Tuve, Rosalind Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery
      • Wright, Louis Middle Class Culture in Elizabethan Britain
      • Yates, Frances Astraea: the Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century
    • Seventeenth Century:
      • Barker, Francis, et al., eds. 1642: Literature and Power in the Seventeenth Century
      • Bloom, Clive, ed. Jacobean Poetry and Prose
      • Bradbury, Malcolm, ed. Metaphysical Poetry
      • Corns, Thomas Uncloistered Virtue: English Political Literature, 1640-1660
      • Dollimore, Jonathan Radical Tragedy
      • Goldberg, Jonathan James I and the Politics of Literature: Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne and their Contemporaries
      • Hammond, Gerald Fleeting Things: English Poets and Poems, 1616-1660
      • Hammond, Gerald, ed. The Metaphysical Poets
      • Harvey, Elizabeth, et al., eds. Soliciting Interpretation: Literary Theory and Seventeenth Century English Poetry
      • Healy, Thomas, et al., eds. Literature and the English Civil War
      • Keast, William, ed. Seventeenth Century English Poetry: Modern Essays in Criticism
      • Knights, L. C. Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson
      • Loxley, James Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil War
      • Miner, Earl The Cavalier Mode from Jonson to Cotton
      • Parry, Graham The Seventeenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1603-1700
      • Post, Jonathan English Lyric Poetry: the Early Seventeenth Century
      • Rivers, Isabel Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry
      • Sambrook, James.  The Eighteenth Century: the Intellectual and Cultural Context, 1700-1789.  
      • Sharpe, Kevin Criticism and Compliment: the Politics of Literature in the England of Charles I
      • Sharpe, Kevin, et al., eds. Politics of Discourse: the Literature and History of Seventeenth Century England
      • Smith, Nigel Literature and Revolution, 1640-1660
      • Summers, Claude, et al., eds. ‘The Muses’ Common-Weale’: Poetry and Politics in the Seventeenth Century
      • Summers, Claude, et al., eds. Classic and Cavalier: Essays on Jonson and the Sons of Ben
      • Summers, Joseph The Heirs of Donne and Jonson
      • Turner, James The Politics of Landscape: Rural Scenery and Society in English Poetry, 1630-1660
      • White, Helen The Metaphysical Poets
      • Wilding, Michael Dragons Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution
      • Zwicker, Stephen Lines of Authority: Politics and English Literary Culture
      • Zwicker, Stephen, et al., eds. Politics of Discourse: the Literature and History of Seventeenth Century England
    • Topics:
      • Classicism:
        • Bush, Douglas Mythology and the Renaissance Tradition in English Poetry
        • Highet, G. The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature
        • Martindale, Charles Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
        • Miles, Geoffrey, ed. Classical Mythology in English Literature: a Critical Anthology
        • Quint, David Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton
        • Lord, George Classical Presences in Seventeenth Century English Poetry
        • Rivers, Isabel Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: a Student’s Guide
        • Sowerby, Robin The Classical Legacy in Renaissance Poetry
        • Thomson, J. A. K. The Classical Background of English Literature
        • Thomson, J. A. K. Classical Influences on English Poetry
        • Tillyard, E. M. W. The English Epic and its Background
      • Christianity:
        • Lewalski, Barbara Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth Century Religious Lyric
        • Low, Anthony Love’s Architecture: Devotional Modes in Seventeenth Century English Poetry
        • Martz, Louis The Poetry of Meditation: a Study in English Religious Literature of the Seventeenth Century
        • Martz, Louis The Poem of the Mind
        • Rivers, Isabel Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry
        • Roberts, John, ed. New Perspectives on the Seventeenth Century Religious Lyric
        • Shuger, Deborah The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity
        • Sinfield, Alan Literature in Protestant England 1550-1660
        • Summers, Claude, et al., eds. ‘Bright Shootes of Everlastingnesse’: the Seventeenth Century Religious Lyric
      • Genres:
        • Alpers, Paul What is Pastoral?
        • Colie, Rosalie Resources of Kind: Genre-Theory in the Renaissance
        • Empson, William Some Versions of Pastoral
        • Fletcher, Angus Allegory: Theory of a Symbolic Mode
        • Gifford, Terry Pastoral
        • Greene, Roland.  "The Lyric."  The Renaissance.  Ed. Glyn P. Norton.  Vol. 3 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.  216-228.
        • Gregerson, Linda The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton and the Protestant Epic
        • Highet, G. The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature
        • Kermode, Frank English Pastoral Poetry: from the Beginnings to Marvell
        • Lewalski, Barbara Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History and Interpretation
        • Lever, J. W. The Elizabethan Love Sonnet
        • Marinelli, Peter Pastoral
        • Martindale, Charles Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
        • Oppenheimer, Paul The Birth of the Modern Mind: Self, Consciousness, and the Invention of the Sonnet
        • Patterson, Annabel Pastoral and Ideology: Virgil to Valery
        • Peterson, Douglas The English Lyric from Wyatt to Donne
        • Poggioli, Renato The Oaten Flute: Essays on Pastoral Poetry and the Pastoral Ideal
        • Reiss, Timothy J.  "Renaissance Theatre and the Theory of Tragedy." 
        •  The Renaissance.  Ed. Glyn P. Norton.  Vol. 3 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.  229-247.
        • Quilligan, Maureen The Language of Allegory: Defining the Genre
        • Quint, David Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton
        • Tillyard, E. M. W. The English Epic and its Background
        • Williams, Raymond The Country and the City
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