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Plunges, Craig.

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Vanishing Points: Perspectival Metaphysics in the English Renaissance.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Vanishing Points: Perspectival Metaphysics in the English Renaissance./
Author:	Plunges, Craig.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	241 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-09A(E).
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10102902
ISBN:	9781339665306

Vanishing Points: Perspectival Metaphysics in the English Renaissance.
Plunges, Craig.

Vanishing Points: Perspectival Metaphysics in the English Renaissance. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 241 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2016.

Taking as its starting point the ut pictura poesis tradition of artistic theory, this dissertation examines how the poets and dramatists of the English Renaissance transformed mimetic strategies originally developed in the fields of art and architecture into unprecedented literary topoi and figures in their own right. The project focuses primarily on the practice of linear perspective, which simulates visual experience by subordinating abstract space to the artificial logic of the "vanishing point". It demonstrates how English writers developed the initial idea of linear perspective as an artificially arranged, delimited point of view into a body of descriptive practices that constitute what I term "perspectival metaphysics". Experiments in perspectival metaphysics in the works of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Andrew Marvell reveal the assumptions that underlie normative vision, and vision's relationship to subjective experience and its interpretation. Vanishing Points concludes that the rhetorical strategies of spatial description developed by early modern English writers are an integral part of the broader epistemological shift from renaissance humanism to the increasingly complex modes of scientific and philosophical rationalism that characterized the European seventeenth century.

ISBN: 9781339665306Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.

Vanishing Points: Perspectival Metaphysics in the English Renaissance.
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