The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia and the Invention of English Literature
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The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia and the Invention of English Literature

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Revises the semiotic paradigm of the early modern 'literary system' dominant since 1983 by adapting methodsentailed in theidea that literary works emerge through a series of semiotic events.Davis analyzes Philip Sidney's Arcadia and Astrophil and Stella to demonstrate how design elements stage the scene of reading these works.

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Year
2011
ISBN
9780230339705

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Preface: A Book about Books
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: The Literary System and its Symptoms: A Disciplinary Glance at the Invention of English Literature
  10. 1 Feigning History in the 1590 Arcadia
  11. 2 The Performance of Astrophel and Stella in the 1591 Quartos
  12. 3 The One and the Many: The Sidney Name in Print, 1590-93
  13. 4 Mary Sidney Herbert and the Reinvention of The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia
  14. 5 Organic and Artificial Wholes in the Invention of English Literature: Or, the Ontological Status ofthe 1598 folio of The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia
  15. Notes
  16. Selected Bibliography
  17. Index