1st Edition

Hidden Designs (Routledge Revivals) The Critical Profession and Renaissance Literature

By Jonathan Crewe Copyright 1986
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

This 1986 study offers a challenging contribution to the on-going critical debate surrounding the English literary Renaissance. Although informed by the ‘new historicism’ and post-structuralism, Hidden Designs makes a plea for criticism to be practiced in its own name rather than in the name of theory, and opposes the hyper-professionalisation of literary studies in favour of the broader... Read more

Acknowledgments;  Prehistory  1. The politics of theater (I)  2. Sympathy  3. Countercurrents  4. The politics of theater (II)  5. Discovery  6. Epilogue: the way forward;  Notes;  Index

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