117 research outputs found
Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and His World
No full textA blind spot suggests an obstructed view, or partisan perception, or a localized lack of understanding. Just as the brain reads the blind spot of the visual field by a curious process of readjustment, Shakespearean drama disorients us with moments of unmastered and unmasterable knowledge, recasting the way we see, know and think about knowing. Focusing on such moments of apparent obscurity, this volume puts methods and motives of knowing under the spotlight, and responds both to inscribed acts of blind-sighting, and to the text or action blind-sighting the reader or spectator. While tracing the hermeneutic yield of such occlusion is its main conceptual aim, it also embodies a methodological innovation: structured as an internal dialogue, it aims to capture, and stake out a place for, a processive intellectual energy that enables a distinctive way of knowing in academic life; and to translate a sense of intellectual community into print.https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/mip_smemc/1004/thumbnail.jp
Change and Exchange: Economies of Literature and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
No full textThe introductory essay outlines the way in which Change and Exchange places literature, and, in a wider sense, imaginative practice, at the centre of early modern economic knowledge. Probing the affinity between economic and metaphorical experience in terms of the transactional processes of change and exchange, it sets up the parameters within which the essays in the volume collectively forge a language to grasp early modern economic phenomena and their epistemic dimensions. It prepares the reader for the stimulating combination of materials that the book presents: the range of generic contexts engendered by emergent economic practices, structures of feeling and modes of knowing made available by new economic relations, and economies of transformation in discursive domains that are distinct from ‘economics’ as we understand it but cognate in their intuition of change and exchange as shaping agents
Fictions of knowledge : fact, evidence, doubt /
No full text"Fictions of Knowledge: Fact, Evidence, Doubt locates literature at the intersection of areas of thinking focused on the nature, scope and methods of knowledge: philosophy, theology, science and the law. The essays engage with literary texts across a wide range of periods and genres to address the continuities and paradigmatic shifts in certain key epistemological categories. These include questions of probability and certainty, problems of evidence, the uses of experiment, and the poetics and ethics of doubt. Through its interdisciplinary and diachronic explorations, the volume registers the way in which imaginative literature responds to the pressures of particular historical moments, at the same time as it charts a larger history of the relation between literary thinking and epistemic practices in other fields."Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-236) and index.Introduction / Yota Batsaki, Subha Mukherji and Jan-Melissa Schramm -- Beyond reasonable doubt: the evolution of a concept / Barbara Shapiro -- Providence, experience and doubt in medieval England / Carl Watkins -- Law, probability and character in Shakespeare / Lorna Hutson -- Trying, knowing and believing: epistemic plots and the poetics of doubt / Subha Mukherji -- The anxiety of variety: knowledge and experience in Montaigne, Burton and Bacon / Kathryn Murphy -- Novel knowledge: judgment, experience, experiment / John Bender -- Lost in the castle of scepticism: sceptical philosophy as gothic romance / Sarah Kareem -- From alchemy to experiment: the political economy of experience in William Godwin's St Leon: a tale of the sixteenth century / Yota Batsaki -- Towards a poetics of (wrongful) accusation: innocence and working-class voice in mid-Victorian fiction / Jan-Melissa Schramm -- Afterword / Michael Wood."Fictions of Knowledge: Fact, Evidence, Doubt locates literature at the intersection of areas of thinking focused on the nature, scope and methods of knowledge: philosophy, theology, science and the law. The essays engage with literary texts across a wide range of periods and genres to address the continuities and paradigmatic shifts in certain key epistemological categories. These include questions of probability and certainty, problems of evidence, the uses of experiment, and the poetics and ethics of doubt. Through its interdisciplinary and diachronic explorations, the volume registers the way in which imaginative literature responds to the pressures of particular historical moments, at the same time as it charts a larger history of the relation between literary thinking and epistemic practices in other fields.
Writing through osmotic borders: boundaries, liminality and language in Mehmet Yashin’s poetics
No full textQuesta articolo propone un’analisi di alcune poesie del poeta turco-cipriota Mehmet Yaşın, esaminando in particolare le strategie linguistiche attraverso cui Yaşın esplora il concetto di ‘soglia’ come spazio intermedio di contaminazione e di coesistenza tra greco-ciprioti e turco-ciprioti e le loro rispettive lingue
Writing through osmotic borders: boundaries, liminality and language in Mehmet Yashin’s poetics
No full textQuesta articolo propone un’analisi di alcune poesie del poeta turco-cipriota Mehmet Yaşın, esaminando in particolare le strategie linguistiche attraverso cui Yaşın esplora il concetto di ‘soglia’ come spazio intermedio di contaminazione e di coesistenza tra greco-ciprioti e turco-ciprioti e le loro rispettive lingue
In lieu of democracy, or how not to lose your head: theatre and authority in Renaissance England
No full textA discussion of the role of tragicomedy as a political tool in sixteenth and early seventeenth century England
The Poesy of Scientia in Early Modern England
No full textThis book explores interconnections between the modes of knowing that we now associate with the rubrics ‘literature’ and ‘science’ at a formative point in their early development. Rather than simply tracing lines of influence, it focuses on how both literary texts and natural philosophy engage with materiality, language, affect, and form. Some essays are invested in how early modern science adopts and actively experiments with rhetorical and poetic modes and expression, while others emphasize a shared investment in natural philosophical topics—alchemy, chance, or astrology for example—that move among the period’s observational texts and its literature, highlighting the participation of literary texts in the production of experimental knowledge. Organised around the broad themes of creation and transformation, mediation and communication, and interpretation and imaginative speculation, the essays collectively probe the presumed dichotomy between science’s schematizing and taxonomic ambitions, and the fertile and volatile creative energies of literary texts
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