The Ludic Self in Seventeenth Century English Literature
by Anna K. Nardo
SUNY Series in The Margins of Literature
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This book argues that play offered Hamlet, John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burton, and Sir Thomas Browne a way to live within the contradictions and conflicts of late Renaissance life by providing a new stance for the self. Grounding its argument in recent theories of play and in a historical analysis that sees the seventeenth century as a point of crisis in the formation of the western self, the author demonstrates how play helped mediate this crisis and how central texts show more of the period enact this mediation. show lessTags
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- The Ludic Self in Seventeenth Century English Literature
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 820.9 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures History, description, critical appraisal of works in more than one form
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- PR438 .S45 .N37 — Language and Literature English English Literature By period Modern 17th century
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