Nayar Renaissance Responses to Technological Change

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-96899-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 370 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth century-the printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass-placed on long-held literary practices, as well as on cultural and social structures. Sheila J. Nayar disinters the clash between humanist drives and print culture; places the rise of gunpowder warfare beside the equivalent rise in chivalric romance; and illustrates fraught attempts by humanists to hold on to classicist traditions in the face of seismic changes in navigation. Lively and engaging, this study illuminates not only how literature responded to radical technological changes, but also how literature was sometimes forced, through unanticipated destabilizations, to reimagine itself. By tracing the early modern human's inter-animation with print, powder, and compass, Nayar exposes how these technologies assisted in producing new ways of seeing, knowing, and being in the world.

Sheila J. Nayar is Professor of English, Communication, and Media Studies at Greensboro College, USA. She is the author of three previous books, including Dante's Sacred Poem, and has published widely on the intersections of narrative, technology, and phenomenology, including in JAAR, PMLA, and Studies in Philology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nayar, Sheila J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgments;6
2;Contents;8
3;List of Images;10
4;Chapter 1: From Petrarch to Bacon, Technécology Style: Introduction;13
4.1;Undoing the “Dark Ages”;13
4.2;Technécology as Methodological Approach;15
4.3;Anxiety, Error, Distortions, Laughter—Not Necessarily in That Order;18
4.4;The Chapters That Follow;22
5;Part I: The Comedy of Errata;29
5.1;Chapter 2: From Print Error to Human Errancy in Print;30
5.1.1;Positioning Humanists in the Age of Print;30
5.1.2;Errata in Early Modern Print Culture;32
5.1.3;The Errant Author;42
5.1.4;Print Error as Truth;46
5.1.5;The Loose and Wandering, the Cheap and Unbound;53
5.1.6;Error and the Technological Gendering of Print;57
5.2;Chapter 3: The Literary Erotics of Print and Misprint;72
5.2.1;Bookmen and Their Errantry;72
5.2.2;Rabelaisian Lists and Largesse;76
5.2.2.1;Typographicopia;76
5.2.2.2;Incontinence, Incompleteness, Instability;84
5.2.3;The Man of La Máquina;90
5.2.3.1;Anticipated Error: Part I of Don Quixote;91
5.2.3.2;Unintended Error, Both Anticipated and Not: Part II of Don Quixote;98
6;Part II: Arms or the Man;122
6.1;Chapter 4: The Golden Age of Chivalry in the Iron Age of Gunpowder;123
6.1.1;Iron and the Golden Age;123
6.1.2;The Early Modern Iron Age;129
6.1.3;Humanism and the Early Modern Iron Age;134
6.1.4;Golden-Age Warriors or Carpet Knights?;140
6.1.5;Golden-Age Romances, Iron-Age Style;148
6.1.6;A Lesson in “Fantasied Men of Warre”;157
6.2;Chapter 5: Plebeian Presence in the Age of Gunpowder;172
6.2.1;This Soldier’s Life;172
6.2.2;Class Contagion and the Chivalric Epic;175
6.2.3;Plotting Anew with Powder;178
6.2.4;Stage Plays, Artillery Style81;185
6.2.5;Pow(d)er, Pyrotechnics, and Dirtying Up the Early Modern English Stage;199
6.2.6;Dirtying Up Humanism in Light of Powder Politics;207
7;Part III: Plus Ultra! Further Yet!;224
7.1;Chapter 6: Renegotiating the World by Compass and Card;225
7.1.1;Compass Culture and the Extended Self;225
7.1.2;The Material-Metaphysical Pull of the Magnetic Compass;230
7.1.3;The Evolution of Map-Mindedness;238
7.1.3.1;From T-O to Ptolemy, Age to Experience;241
7.1.3.2;The Anxiety-Exhilaration of Terra Incognita;248
7.1.3.3;The Ancient-Modern Antipodes;254
7.1.3.4;The Cartographical Rise of the Humanist Past;258
7.2;Chapter 7: Space, Place, and Literary Self-Projection;274
7.2.1;The Changing Visual Field;274
7.2.2;The Rise of Sedentary Travel;276
7.2.2.1;The Body as a Map;280
7.2.2.2;Mapping the Stage, and Staging the Map;286
7.2.2.3;Mapping the Land, Course by Course, Couplet by Couplet;291
7.2.2.4;Above and Beyond the Orbis Terrarum;299
7.3;Chapter 8: Technological Inter-Animation, Writ Large: Conclusion;315
7.3.1;A Ptolemaic Perspective on Technology;315
7.3.2;Locating a Middle Ground;318
7.3.3;Complicating the Technécological;320
8;Bibliography;326
9;Index;353