Classical, Renaissance and Postmodernist Acts of the Imagination: Essays Commemorating O. B. Hardison, Jr.

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This sharply focused collection of essays on poetics and poetry, with special attention to Shakespeare, includes the work of some of the nation's best-known and most respected scholars and authors. All of them are former colleagues of O. B. Hardison, Jr., and their major new essays, written especially for this collection, center on his interests: Aristotle and classical poetics, Petrarch and Italian poetics, the English Renaissance, especially Shakespeare and Milton, and postmodernist work in theory, literature, and science.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780874135831
  • Publisher: University of Delaware Press
  • Publication date: 10/28/1996
  • Pages: 304
  • Product dimensions: 6.54 (w) x 9.40 (h) x 0.92 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface 7
O.B. 15
O. B. Hardison, Jr. at Chapel Hill 18
Fair Allurements to Learning: The Legacy of a Professing Teacher 24
O. B. Hardison, Jr.: 21 October 1993 28
Aristotle and the Future of Tragedy 31
Katharsis in the Twentieth Century: The Paradigm Shifts 40
Poetry and Epistemology: How "Words, after speech, reach / Into the silence...." 47
John Cage's Dublin, Lyn Hejinian's Leningrad: Poetic Cities as Cyberspaces 58
Poetics in Practice: "The Gift: A Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte - a Fragment" 76
Justice and Renaissance Poetics 91
Spenser's Farewell to Dido: The Public Turn 105
Sidney, Shakespeare, and the Fallen Poet 116
Shakespearean Imaginations of the Other 132
Love's Labor's Lost: Finding a Text, Finding a Play 151
Falling in Love: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet 177
"Begot of nothing"? Dreams and Imagination in Romeo and Juliet 195
"Of Government": Theme and Action in Measure for Measure 211
Second Chances: Milton's Eve and the Law 222
Rhymes and Reasons 236
The Splendor of Truth 257
Culture and Technology: Reflections of O. B. Hardison, Jr.'s Disappearing through the Skylight 266
The Creative Brain 278
Invisible Evolution in the Works of O.B. Hardison, Jr. and His Contemporaries 288
Selected Works 294
Contributors 300
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