New PDF release: Essays in Memory of Richard Helgerson: Laureations

By Kathy Lavezzo,Roze Hentschell,Leonard Barkan,Frances Dolan,Heather Dubrow,Edwin M. Duval,Margaret Ferguson,Barbara Fuchs,Patricia Fumerton,Andrew Hadfield,Patricia Clare Ingham,Andrew McRae,Shannon Miller,James Nohrnberg,Michael O'Connell

This e-book brings jointly new essays through major cultural critics who've been prompted through the groundbreaking scholarship of Richard Helgerson. the unique essays penned for this anthology evince the continuing effect of Helgerson’s paintings in significant serious debates together with nationwide id, literary careerism, and reviews of shape. examining not just early smooth but in addition medieval literary texts, the items that include Essays in reminiscence of Richard Helgerson: Laureations reply to either Helgerson’s extra well-known scholarly works and the full variety of his serious corpus, from his earliest paintings on prodigality to his most recent writings on mid-sixteenth century eu poets. The interdisciplinary, transnational, and comparativist spirit of Helgerson’s feedback is mirrored within the essays, as is his dedication to reports of a number of genres that however attend to the particularities of form. Contributors provide new interpretations of a number of of Shakespeare’s plays—Hamlet, I Henry IV, The Tempest, Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear—and different dramas resembling Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle, the nameless drama The London Prodigal, and Stephen Greenblatt and John Mee’s modern play Cardenio. based on Helgerson’s comparativist flip, the quantity contains analyses of Joachim Du Bellay’s poetry and Donato Gianotti’s dialogue of The Divine Comedy. Prose works featured within the quantity surround More’s Utopia and Isaac Walton’s The Compleat Angler. Spenser’s early poetry and the medieval romance Floris and Blanchflour additionally obtain new readings.

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