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Ben Jonson and Envy

Name: Ben Jonson and Envy
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107406636
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Autor: Lynn S. Meskill

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Cambridge University Press

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In the early modern period, envy was often represented iconographically in the image of the Medusa,...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Lynn S. Meskill

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2012

strony

242

EAN

9781107406636

ISBN

1107406633

Enbook ID

02051599

Wydawca

Cambridge University Press

Waga

Wymiary

154 x 228 x 13

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In the early modern period, envy was often represented iconographically in the image of the Medusa, with snaky locks and a poisonous gaze. Ben Jonson and Envy investigates the importance of envy to Jonson's imagination, showing that he perceived spectators and readers as filled with envy, and created strategies to defend his work from their distorting and potentially 'deadly' gaze. Drawing on historical and anthropological studies of evil eye beliefs, this 2009 study focuses on the authorial imperative to charm and baffle ritualistically the eye of the implied spectator or reader, in order to protect his works from defacement. Comparing the exchange between authors and readers to social relations, the book illuminates the way in which the literary may be seen to be informed by popular culture. Ben Jonson and Envy tackles a previously overlooked, but vital, aspect of Jonson's poetics.