Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press 01/l /27 J, 2010
ISBN 10: 0812242491 ISBN 13: 9780812242492
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Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 0812237935 ISBN 13: 9780812237931
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Verlag: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0812234081 ISBN 13: 9780812234084
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Zustand: Gut. X; 238 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - - Small abrasions on the dustjacket. Otherwise good and clean. - Schutzumschlag leicht berieben. Sonst gut und sauber. - Throughout his work, Ben Jonson referred -JL to writing in terms of ingestion, digestion, and excretion, mimicking the functions of the digestive tract. In The Fury of Men's Gullets, Bruce Boehrer explores the poet's fascination with alimentary matters and the way in which such references describe Jonson's personal and cultural transformation. Drawing on the theoretical work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, the author studies the alimentary and convivial language in Jonson's work. He suggests that these pervasive metaphors provided the poet with a vocabulary for addressing issues of patronage and friendship, literary production and consumption, and social inclusion and exclusion. Boehrer demonstrates that Jonson's own biography reflects a kind of reverse digestion: whereas his childhood home was situated over a sewage canal, his career culminated in the royal banquet hall, where his masques entertained the court during meals. From dunghill to dining hallyjonson's life was one of constant transformation. Boehrer contends that the poet's preoccupation with food and digestion also reflected contemporary systems of ritual and regulation of dietary activities. Separate chapters concentrate on the protocols of dining in a culture that valued both moderation and excess; Jonson's language of table manners and its classical roots; his representation of the emergent literary profession as a digestive process; and his scatological writings, which mirrored social concern over public cleanli- I ness, waste disposal, and sanitation. In his wide-ranging examination of Jonson's plays, prose, and nondramatic verse, Boehrer discusses the sociohistorical significance of food, the politics of conspicuous consumption, the infrastructure of Jacobean London, and pertinent aspects of Renaissance medical practice and physiological theory. The Fury of Men's Gullets uniquely interprets Jonson's | construction of early modern English literary sensibility. BRUCE THOMAS BOEHRER is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Florida State University. He is the author of Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812234084 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 554 Original cloth with dustjacket. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.
Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 0812237935 ISBN 13: 9780812237931
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Verlag: Philadelphia: Unversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0812231341 ISBN 13: 9780812231342
Anbieter: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Deutschland
Hardcover with dust jacket. Zustand: Gut. VI, 189 p. Schutzumschlag mit leichten Randläsuren, sonst ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / Dust jacket with slight edge wear, otherwise a good and clean copy without markings. - Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Telling Stories About Incest The Problem Reader's Program 1. Henry VIII and the Political Uses of Incest Theory In the Bedrooms of the Great Basic Theory of Incest Doctrine of the Henrician Divorce (Part I) Doctrine of the Henrician Divorce (Part II) Anthropology as Politics 2. Incest and Tudor Literary Politics Henry's Legacy Elizabeth and the Issue of Title Three Tudor Plays "Ten Times Our Mother": Incest and Feminine Authority in Hamlet The Cult of Chastity 3. James I and the Fabrication of Kinship The Succession Revisited Revenge Tragedy and the Jacobean Social Climber A Queen and No Queen: Female Inheritance in Beaumont and Fletcher Commerce and Incest in Women Beware Women The Conundrum of Kin(g)ship 4. The End of Kingship? Incest and the English Revolution Charles I: The Governor as Family Man John Ford's Tremulous Private Heaven Cavalier Drama and the Royal Dilemma Milton and the Powers That Be 5. Conclusions: The Politics of Incest Theory Westermarck, Morgan, Nature Freud, Feminism, Culture "The Libertie of a Subject": Incest and Child Abuse The Demographics of Incest in Renaissance England The Properties of Kingship Afterword Notes Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780812231342 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 459.
Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0812231341 ISBN 13: 9780812231342
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Verlag: University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, 2010
ISBN 10: 0812242491 ISBN 13: 9780812242492
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Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 0812237935 ISBN 13: 9780812237931
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hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Parrot Culture: Our 2500-year-long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 0812242491 ISBN 13: 9780812242492
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. Innen: Seiten vergilbt. | Seiten: 250 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.
Verlag: University Of Pennsylvania Press Mär 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0812221044 ISBN 13: 9780812221046
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After completing his conquest of the Persian empire, Alexander the Great maneuvered his army across the Hindu Kush and into India. During his two years there, he traveled from dry frigid mountains to humid tropical lowlands and then back across one of the most punishing deserts on the planet. He fought a series of desperate battles against strange foes mounted on war-elephants, suffering wounds that nearly killed him. And when he eventually turned homeward, he brought with him specimens of a rare, magical species, a bird that could speak with a human voice. Introduced to Europe by Alexander, parrots were quickly embraced by Western culture as exotic and astonishing, full of marvelous powers, and close to the gods. Over the centuries they would become objects of veneration or figures of folly, creatures prized for their wit--or their place on the dinner table. Ultimately, they would become emblematic of the West's interaction with the world at large. Identifying a deeply rooted obsession with these beautiful and loquacious birds, Bruce Thomas Boehrer provides the first account of parrots and their impact on the Western world. Parrot Culture: Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird traces the unusual history of parrots from their introduction in the Graeco-Roman world as items of oriental luxury, through the great age of New World exploration, to the contemporary ecological crisis of globalism. Boehrer identifies the poignant irony in the way parrots became ubiquitous as symbols and mascots, while suffering near extinction at the hands of those who desired them. Exploring their presence and meanings in the art, literature, and history of Western civilization, Parrot Culture also celebrates the beauty, intelligence, and personality of these birds, whose fate will say as much about us and the world we have created as it will about them.
Verlag: UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA PR, 2010
ISBN 10: 0812221044 ISBN 13: 9780812221046
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. Exploring the presence and meanings of these birds in the art, literature, and history of Western civilization, Parrot Culture traces the unusual history of parrots from their introduction in the Graeco-Roman world, through the great age of New World explor.
Verlag: UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA PR, 1997
ISBN 10: 0812234081 ISBN 13: 9780812234084
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Gebunden. Zustand: New. Über den AutorrnrnBruce Thomas Boehrer is Bertram H. Davis Professor of English at Florida State University. A life-long parrot fancier, he is the author of Parrot Culture: Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World s Most Talkative Bird.
Verlag: Renewed Spirit Publishing Jan 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0812234081 ISBN 13: 9780812234084
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In The Fury of Men's Gullets, Bruce Boehrer explores the poet's fascination with alimentary matters and the ways in which such references describe Jonson's personal and cultural transformation. In his wide-ranging examination of Jonson's plays, prose, and nondramatic verse, Boehrer discusses the sociohistorical significance of food, the politics of conspicuous consumption, the infrastructure of Jacobean London, and pertinent aspects of Renaissance medical practice and physiological theory. The Fury of Men's Gullets uniquely interprets Jonson's construction of early modern English literary sensibility.
Verlag: UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA PR, 1992
ISBN 10: 0812231341 ISBN 13: 9780812231342
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Gebunden. Zustand: New. Über den AutorrnrnBruce Thomas Boehrer is Bertram H. Davis Professor of English at Florida State University. A life-long parrot fancier, he is the author of Parrot Culture: Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World s Most Talkative Bird.
Verlag: University Of Pennsylvania Press Apr 1992, 1992
ISBN 10: 0812231341 ISBN 13: 9780812231342
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England, Bruce Thomas Boehrer argues that a preoccupation with incest is built not the dominant social and cultural concerns of early modern England. Proceeding from a study of Henry III's divorce and succession legislation, through the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I, this work examines the interrelation between family politics and literary expression in and around the English royal court.