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Gendered Secrecy in Shakespeare's <i>Lucrece</i>
No full textThis essay offers a critical, historical, and authorial analysis of the intersection of gender and secrecy in William Shakespeare's /Lucrece/. The author of this essay locates within the poem a traditional view in which females are either transparent and virtuous, or duplicitous and promiscuous, with little possibility for greater moral complexity. This dichotomous view emerges in the voices of the narrator and of Lucrece, who considers herself incapable of emotional opacity, and acts in response to her self-perceived transparency. It also marks the editorial response to the poem – in the seventeenth century, as shown by Sasha Roberts, and in the eighteenth, as shown here. The analysis covers little or never explored eighteenth-century responses in print to Shakespeare's poem, including /Tarquin and Lucrece, or, The Rape: A Poem/ (1768), part of the public uproar over a real-life rape scandal in 1767-1768. Apart from the main narrator of the poem, /Lucrece/ also contains a distinct authorial voice that comments freely on human nature. This brief but broad commentary indiscriminately endows moral complexity, irrespective of gender, thus suggesting that in Shakespeare's /Lucrece/ there are the means both for entrenching traditional notions of secrecy and gender and for undermining them
The Faerie Queene
No full textPar cette contribution, l'auteure place la Reine des Fées dans le contexte de la littérature anglaise, et analyse l'ambiguïté d'un jardin infâme, « le Bosquet des Délices », qui n'est néanmoins pas aussi tempéré qu'il en a l'air
Reconfiguring Early Modern English Poetry in the Editorial Tradition: Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Milton
No full textThis thesis intervenes in a debate over the value of the editorial tradition in the study of early modern English literature. In recent decades, one radical form of the New Textualism has rejected the editorial tradition altogether, arguing that it stifles interpretation and distorts texts. This thesis takes a different tack, considering the value and nature of the editorial tradition itself. It argues that the editorial tradition provides privileged access to the reception of authors and their works, informing our understanding of certain reconfigurations, and sometimes helping to produce them, between their time and our own. Moreover, although as a concept the editorial tradition often tends toward conservation and stability, this thesis argues that in practice it may also sustain emergent conceptions, internal debates, and multiple interpretations. These arguments are developed across four case studies that treat the place of the poems and /Sonnets/ in Shakespeare's authorship; the evolution of the biographical approach to Shakespeare's /Sonnets/; the authorial relationship of Herbert and Donne in seventeenth-century publications, as well as in the context of more recent ‘metaphysical poetry'; and the pairing of Milton's /Paradise Regained/ and /Samson Agonistes/. Ultimately, this thesis suggests that the editorial tradition concerns reconfigurations in the present, as well as the past.La présente thèse intervient dans le débat sur l'intérêt que revêt la tradition éditoriale pour l'étude de la littérature anglaise du début de l'ère moderne. Au cours des dernières décennies, une forme radicale de New Textualism a rejeté la tradition éditoriale dans son ensemble, au motif qu'elle faisait obstacle à l'interprétation des textes et dénaturait ceux-ci. Dans cette thèse, j'aborde le sujet sous un autre angle : je m'intéresse à la tradition éditoriale en soi, à sa nature et à sa valeur. Selon moi, la tradition éditoriale offre un point de vue privilégié sur la réception des auteurs et de leurs œuvres : elle révèle la manière dont ils ont été perçus et, parfois, contribue à de nouvelles conceptions de ceux-ci au fils du temps. En outre, bien que la tradition éditoriale soit associée à la conservation et à la stabilité, je défends l'idée qu'elle pourrait également soutenir des conceptions émergentes, des débats internes et des interprétations multiples dans la pratique. Je développe mes arguments dans le cadre de quatre études de cas qui portent, respectivement, sur 1) l'importance accordée aux poèmes et aux /Sonnets/ dans la figure d'auteur de Shakespeare, 2) l'évolution de l'approche biographique des /Sonnets/ de Shakespeare, 3) la relation entre les figures d'auteur de Herbert et de Donne dans les publications du XVIIe siècle ainsi que, plus récemment, dans le contexte de la poésie métaphysique, et 4) le rassemblement de deux poèmes clés de Milton, /Paradise Regained/ et /Samson Agonistes/. Dans ma conclusion, je fais valoir que ce sont autant les conceptions actuelles que celles du passé que la tradition éditoriale met en lumière
Canon - apocrypha
No full textEvery edition of Shakespeare's works imprints a canon. Defined materially, the boundary between canon and apocrypha might seem as open and shut as the book itself. This chapter complicates that distinction by drawing on eighteenth-century editions of Shakespeare's plays and poems, and more recent editions of his works. It argues that the poems in the early eighteenth century do not fit squarely into Shakespeare's 'canon' or 'apocrypha', but were instead variously and sometimes contradictorily treated by publishers, editors, and book buyers. A key example is the editor Charles Gildon who, in his edition of the poetic Works, offered unprecedented editorial guidance to Shakespeare's oeuvre, but elsewhere consistently elevated the plays while neglecting the poems. To navigate such engagement by Gildon and others, this chapter conceptualizes 'elective', 'integrated', and 'selective' canons. In the present day, these canons persist alongside recent interest in an 'attributed' canon, that is, works that are (probably) not by Shakespeare, but which readers may have believed to have been so. With Shakespeare alongside 'Shakespeare', the boundaries between canon and apocrypha blur within editions, as well as across them
Biographical reconfigurations of Shakespeare’s <i>Sonnets</i> : John Benson, Charles Gildon, and the Catullan Epigram
No full textFor certain scholars, it is Edmond Malone’s edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the modern editorial tradition that followed which forged a crucial link between the author’s life and work. This article refines that idea by focusing on John Benson’s ‘second edition’ of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, entitled Poems (1640), and its early editorial tradition. It argues that early editors and publishers of the Sonnets restricted, manipulated, and exploited its biographical potential. This engagement came to a head in the early eighteenth century when Charles Gildon became the first editor to articulate an explicit biographical approach to the Sonnets (albeit Benson’s version). Gildon considered the Benson sonnets to be mostly epigrams, which gave his biographical approach distinctive features, heretofore unrecognised, such as heightened miscellaneity and internal fragmentation, and associations with the ancient writer Catullus. This earlier version of the biographical approach, long eclipsed by that of Malone, still holds valuable insight for readers of the Sonnets today
Shakespeare’s narrative poems in Poems on Affairs of State (1707) : politics, authorship and literary history
No full textPoems on Affairs of State (1707) marked the first publication of Shakespeare’s Lucrece in over a half century, the first publication of Venus and Adonis in over a quarter century, and their first ever joint publication. Despite these historic markers, Shakespeare’s poems in the context of this volume have never been discussed at length. This article aims to remediate that scholarly gap. It argues that the 1707 publication does not affiliate Shakespeare with any specific ideology, despite what has been previously suggested, and that it gives far more importance to Shakespeare’s poems than has been previously recognized. Given the arrangement of the poems within the volume, Lucrece in particular helps construct a literary history of poems on affairs of state, and it participates in political fictions that neutralize ideology. The article shows, moreover, that Poems on Affairs of State (1707) is not an isolated publication, but rather one that influenced Lucrece’s eighteenth-century reception, even as it looked back to key issues from the previous century. Ultimately, the article suggests that Poems on Affairs of State (1707) is still relevant to critical readings of the politics of Lucrece today
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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