Renaissance Man
Essays on literature and culture for Anthony W. Johnson
Editors
Here friends of Anthony W. Johnson honour him as a re-embodiment of the polymathic artist-scholar figure once observable in Ben Jonson, on whom he has done some of his most distinctive work. Part I of the book reflects his strong grounding in English literature and culture of the seventeenth century, with essays, not only on Ben Jonson, but also on university drama, on grammar school drama, and on humanist literary taste. Part II responds to his pioneering flights of culture-imagological time-travel to other periods, with essays on riddles through the ages, on Matthew Arnold’s doubts about Homeric pictorialism, and on anciently comic elements in George Gissing’s urban fiction. Part III celebrates his importance, both as scholar and artist, for the present day, with essays extending imagological analysis to the singer Nick Drake, to the avant-garde Danish poet Morten Søkilde, and to Sean S. Baker’s film Tangerine, plus a climactic celebration of Johnson’s own performances on solo violin and guitar as augmented by self-recording.
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 11] 2019. xi, 273 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 8 November 2019
Published online on 8 November 2019
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Series editor’s preface
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Tabula gratulatoria | pp. xi–11
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Introducing Anthony W. JohnsonTommi Alho, Jason Finch and Roger D. Sell | pp. 1–22
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Part I. The seventeenth century
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Chapter 1. Ben Jonson’s Epigram 101, “Inviting a Friend to Supper”: Literary pleasures immediately tastedRoger D. Sell | pp. 25–57
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Chapter 2. Passing the test with Polymachaeroplacides: Seventeenth-century assessment criteria for George Wilde’s first play, Eumorphus sive Cupido Adultus (1635)Elizabeth Sandis | pp. 59–79
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Chapter 3. Vir bonus, dicendi peritus: Learning rhetoric in a Restoration grammar schoolTommi Alho | pp. 81–101
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Chapter 4. John Sheffield’s Essay upon Poetry: The use of literature for educational purposes in the long eighteenth centuryAdam Borch | pp. 103–128
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Part II. Time-travel
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Chapter 5. “Thou art the unanswered question”: On the imagology of the riddle of the SphinxBo Pettersson | pp. 131–146
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Chapter 6. “Sohrab and Rustum”: Matthew Arnold’s spectacleJuha-Pekka Alarauhio | pp. 147–171
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Chapter 7. The many-sided comedy of George Gissing’s The Nether WorldJason Finch | pp. 173–196
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Part III. The present
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Chapter 8. “River Man” and “Pink Moon”: Nick Drake, his image world, and the iconosphereBent Sørensen | pp. 199–208
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Chapter 9. The perfection of Morten Søkilde’s extended-form poetryClaus Madsen | pp. 209–221
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Chapter 10. iPhone cinema and Tangerine: Imagology, actor-network theory, and the idea of trans-Steen Ledet Christiansen | pp. 223–241
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Chapter 11. Delay: An interlude, an abeyance, a ghost storyStuart McWilliams | pp. 243–247
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Bibliography
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Index | pp. 267–273
Subjects
Literature & Literary Studies
Main BIC Subject
DSB: Literary studies: general
Main BISAC Subject
LIT000000: LITERARY CRITICISM / General