Chamber music : Elizabethan sonnet-sequences and the pleasure of criticism
Arranged somewhat like a sonnet-sequence, in semi-sequential units, Chamber Music can be seen as following two streams. In the first instance, it presents a fresh and original discussion of the major Elizabethan sonnet-sequences: Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion, and Shakespeare's Sonnets and Lover's Complaint. The sonnet-sequences are read in tandem with works of modern criticism, including those of Roland Barthes, Michel Riffaterre, Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Derrida, and Umberto Eco. The book is also an experiment in modern (as opposed to postmodern) criticism in which the content of the argument modifies the presentation
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 289 p. ; 24 cm.
9780802041883, 0802041884
1034893947
1. Prelude
a new intellectual art
2. Three easy pieces
sonnet analysis
3. Polyphony
the plural of the text
4. Tempo/Sequenza
textual time in Astrophil and Stella
5. Two-part invention
love/ruins/SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS
6. Theme with variations
skin/deep: beauty
7. From the New World
Will Archer's diary
8. Ein Heldenleben
courtier, text, and death
9. Death and the maiden
architecture
10. Divertimento
the text as desiring-machine
11. Four-part fugue
indeterminacy and undecideability
12. Encore
irregardless
App. Discourse and its Choices