Chamber Music: Elizabethan Sonnet-Sequences and the Pleasure of Criticism

by Roger Kuin

Overview

A book of post-modern criticism, influenced by many modern literary critics, including Barthes and Eco, that analyses the sonnet sequences of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare from an interpretative angle as well as reevaluating the Renaissance sonnets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442614987
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	10/30/2012
Series:	Heritage
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Roger Kuin is a member of the Department of English, McLaughlin College, York University.

What People are Saying About This

A. Kent Hieatt

'[Chamber Music] starts with the premise that the present direction of writing about literature in literature-departments is self-defeating: on the newest critical topics we are solemnly talking only to smaller and smaller numbers of each other, about matters that no one else can be interested in, and that no social funding structure will eventually support more than marginally. Professor Kuin tries to find a way to reinoculate all of us with the humane joy of reading which makes a canonical text a liberating self-discovery, and which can begin to raise the lives of the young barbarians we are supposed to be teaching from clumping nescience to what G.B. Shaw called an enlightened levity.'

Donald Cheney

'The book achieves to an extraordinary degree what literary criticism typically proposes: it introduces us to challenging texts from an earlier period, shows us how to read (and write) them, and sends us back to them with renewed energies and skills.'

Editorial Reviews

'The book achieves to an extraordinary degree what literary criticism typically proposes: it introduces us to challenging texts from an earlier period, shows us how to read (and write) them, and sends us back to them with renewed energies and skills.'

Donald Cheney, Department of English, University of Massachusetts

'[Chamber Music] starts with the premise that the present direction of writing about literature in literature-departments is self-defeating: on the newest critical topics we are solemnly talking only to smaller and smaller numbers of each other, about matters that no one else can be interested in, and that no social funding structure will eventually support more than marginally. Professor Kuin tries to find a way to reinoculate all of us with the humane joy of reading which makes a canonical text a liberating self-discovery, and which can begin to raise the lives of the young barbarians we are supposed to be teaching from clumping nescience to what G.B. Shaw called an enlightened levity.'

A. Kent Hieatt, Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario

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