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Kuzner, James.

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Open subjects: Forms of modern selfhood in Renaissance texts.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Open subjects: Forms of modern selfhood in Renaissance texts./
Author:	Kuzner, James.
Description:	231 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Jonathan Goldberg; Richard Halpern.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-11A.
Subject:	History, European. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3288484
ISBN:	9780549313007

Open subjects: Forms of modern selfhood in Renaissance texts.
Kuzner, James.

Open subjects: Forms of modern selfhood in Renaissance texts. - 231 p.

Advisers: Jonathan Goldberg; Richard Halpern.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 2008.

"Open Subjects" describes vulnerable aspects of the self in early modern literary texts, with an eye to modernity. Against a recent critical trend that defines the modern self as the bounded, liberal subject and that finds its antecedent in the supposedly "republican" works of a range of English Renaissance figures, my dissertation dwells on how these figures often embrace alternative, open models of selfhood. In readings centered on Book IV of Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Marvell's "Upon Appleton House," and Milton's Paradise Lost, I work against the notion of a progressive, Whig history in which civic virtue exists above all for the cultivation of individual autonomy. In republican accounts, early modern selves act ideally when they achieve critical distance and voice calls for recognition---when they emerge in the field of political visibility as potential bearers of rights and possible participants in English polity; my dissertation, by contrast, looks to moments beyond the hope to be seen and safeguarded as a bounded self, moments that instead "unwork" subjects and so reveal their being as fundamentally vulnerable. Early modern interaction often works toward ends contrary to those that, for much liberal theory, sociality ought to serve; my texts of focus assume, for example, that words can have direct bodily effects which mitigate discrete being, that subjects might speak not to be recognized as whole but to be destabilized or undone, and that friendship moves such undoing along. I find value in how early modern texts portray what is inside and outside individual boundaries as inseparably, dynamically, and even indistinguishably tied to each other, to how individuals do not make connections so much as they become those connections.

ISBN: 9780549313007Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018076
History, European.

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520 $a "Open Subjects" describes vulnerable aspects of the self in early modern literary texts, with an eye to modernity. Against a recent critical trend that defines the modern self as the bounded, liberal subject and that finds its antecedent in the supposedly "republican" works of a range of English Renaissance figures, my dissertation dwells on how these figures often embrace alternative, open models of selfhood. In readings centered on Book IV of Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Marvell's "Upon Appleton House," and Milton's Paradise Lost, I work against the notion of a progressive, Whig history in which civic virtue exists above all for the cultivation of individual autonomy. In republican accounts, early modern selves act ideally when they achieve critical distance and voice calls for recognition---when they emerge in the field of political visibility as potential bearers of rights and possible participants in English polity; my dissertation, by contrast, looks to moments beyond the hope to be seen and safeguarded as a bounded self, moments that instead "unwork" subjects and so reveal their being as fundamentally vulnerable. Early modern interaction often works toward ends contrary to those that, for much liberal theory, sociality ought to serve; my texts of focus assume, for example, that words can have direct bodily effects which mitigate discrete being, that subjects might speak not to be recognized as whole but to be destabilized or undone, and that friendship moves such undoing along. I find value in how early modern texts portray what is inside and outside individual boundaries as inseparably, dynamically, and even indistinguishably tied to each other, to how individuals do not make connections so much as they become those connections.
520 $a Such assumptions are not "modern" in the eyes of republican critics, but they can yield salutary results; further, they are still very much with us, as numerous theorists variously show. I suggest that Renaissance conceptions of selfhood can be more closely correlated with postmodern accounts of modernity than with liberal ones, and that Renaissance conceptions of community often resemble those advocated by Derrida, Foucault, Leo Bersani, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Giorgio Agamben. I chart instances in which being together exposes individuals, when instead of affording protection it plunges them into transformative intensities of uncertainty and risk. The extent to which I endorse Bruno Latour's notion that we have never been modern, in other words, is also the extent to which I advance Renaissance texts as opening routes to alternative modernities. Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton and Marvell make it difficult to value Renaissance literature solely insofar as it anticipates liberalism; "Open Subjects" argues that their works speak to projects of modernity by belonging to what some would consign to the dark past of pre-modernity, and that grasping their political significance requires further appraisal of and appreciation for precisely this.
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