23.2809, Books: Style in the Renaissance: Canning

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From: Ellena Moriarty [Ellena.moriarty at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Style in the Renaissance: Canning

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Title: Style in the Renaissance 
Subtitle: Language and Ideology in Early Modern England 
Series Title: Patricia Canning  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
	   http://www.continuumbooks.com

Book URL: http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=159080&SearchType=Basic 

Author: Patricia Canning

Hardback: ISBN: 1441185526 9781441185525 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 75.00

Abstract:

In a book which brings together language, text and context, Patricia Canning 
synthesizes models of contemporary stylistics with both critical and literary-
historical theory. In doing so, the author maintains a specific and sustained 
stylistic focus on the religious, political and ideological issues that animated 
and defined Reformation England. Each chapter interrogates the dichotomous 
concept of 'word' and 'image' by considering the ways in which writers of this 
period deal with these contentious subjects in their dramatic and poetic 
works. 'Representation', Canning argues, 'is not just as a matter of semiotics 
but of ideology'.

Whereas stylistics enjoys extensive application in the analysis of 
contemporary texts, it has, until now, been markedly under-used in the 
exploration of the historical literary genre. Addressing this shortcoming 
squarely and robustly, Canning's book is a showcase for the stylistic method. 
Among its many insights, this book shows how stylistics can enrich our 
understanding and critical interpretation of a particular literary genre in its 
ideological and historical context.

'Patricia Canning's adventurous interdisciplinary study brings together in new 
and exciting ways the two fields of linguistics and literary criticism in her 
examination of selected texts by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The 
range and detail of her analysis, evident especially in her microscopic 
examination of linguistic forms, cultural assumptions, and histoirical contexts 
in plays by Shakespeare and Middleton, and in the poetry of George 
Crashaw, is impressive. Here is a rare combination of strenuous scholarly 
rigour, and uncompromising analysis, replete with a full and clear awareness 
of what interdisciplinarity involves. A welcome new voice offering unique 
insights into texts that we thought we knew.' Professor John 
Drakakis,University of Stirling, UK

Acknowledgements \ Introduction: In the Beginning was the Word \ Chapter 
One: Constructing Plausible Stories: Ideology, Conceptual Integration Theory 
and the Politics of Representation in George Herbert's 'JESU' \ Chapter Two: 
'A Deed Without a Name': Murder and the Linguistics of Agency in 
Shakespeare's Macbeth \ Chapter Three: 'Bit-Part' Actors: Metonymy in 
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's The Changeling \Chapter Four: 
Picturing Words: Ekphrasis and the Word-as-Image in Early Modern Poetry \ 
Conclusion: 'Being Nothing': The value of the W/word \ Notes \ Bibliography \ 
Index< 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Stylistics
                     Syntax

Written In: English  (eng)

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