Go Figure - by Judith H Anderson & Joan Pong Linton (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Go Figure </i>addresses theories of the figure and practices of figuration ranging from classical rhetoric and biblical exegesis to semiotics, psychoanalysis, and socio-politics. <p/>Situating theory in history, the essays in this volume focus on verbal and visual texts from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and they explore science, sacramental poetics, romance and lyric narrative, and the natural world in still lifes, prayer, parasites, and politics. They engage the work of poets, painters, storytellers, and playwrights. <p/>While the theories that inform them are many and various, they share a point of reference in the work of Jean-François Lyotard, who theorizes the co-presence in language of the figure and discourse: Lyotard's figure relates to discourse as image emerges in description, as sense accompanies signification, and as energies shape texts from within. The original essays invited for the volume show how figural energies and forms inhabit both texts and the practices that produce them--how figures are fundamentally in play in the making of subjects, societies, traditions, and institutions.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>A significant contribution to recent New Formalist debates on the relation<br>between aesthetics, historicism, and poststructuralist theory.</p><b>-----Melissa Sanchez, <i>University of Pennsylvania</i></b><br><br><p>A superb contribution to Renaissance studies that respects the complexity<br>of textual detail as well as social, cultural, and political history.</p><b>-----William J. Kennedy, <i>Cornell University</i></b><br><br>An extraordinarily stimulating collection, on an important topic for multiple disciplines.<b>-----Patricia Parker, <i>Stanford University</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Judith H. Anderson is Chancellor's Professor of English Emeritus at Indiana University. Her books include <i>Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English</i>; <i>Translating Investments: Metaphor and the Dynamic of Cultural Change in Tudor-Stuart England</i> (Fordham); and <i>Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton</i> (Fordham). <p/>Joan Pong Linton is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Asian American Program at Indiana University. In 1998, she published<i> The Romance of the New World: Gender and the Literary Formations of English Colonialism</i>.</p>
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