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Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb By Scott L. Newstok

An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts. Visit Palgrave Macmillan and purchase your copy today!

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Friday, 10 July 2009
Quoting Death in Early Modern England The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb
by Scott L. Newstok
Palgrave Mcmillian Publishing

An innovative study of the emergent Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. Quoting Death argues that the post-Reformation preoccupation with textual remembrance led to a remarkable proliferation of epitaphic gestures beyond the putative gravestone. A poetics of quotation uncovers the fascinating ways in which writers have recited (or re-sited) these texts within new contexts. This study modifies conventional genre studies by detailing the situatedness of quoted text—a compositional habit that became markedly prevalent with the continued expansion of printing and literacy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The compact genre of the epitaph was incorporated in other discourses by major early modern writers: the dramatists Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd, and Tourneur; Tudor and Stuarts monarchs and Oliver Cromwell; the historians Holinshed, Stow, Camden, and Weever; the rhetoricians Sidney and Puttenham; and the poets Skelton, More, Jonson, and Donne. By scrutinizing the sophisticated ways in which these authors deployed epitaphs, this book contributes a refined approach to the growing field of historical formalism, as it probes rhetorical elements of genre while remaining attuned to theoretical, historicist, and methodological concerns.

SCOTT L. NEWSTOK teaches English at Rhodes College, USA. He has edited Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare, and is co-editor of a collection of essays on Macbeth in African-American culture.

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=290604

 
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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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“Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death.”

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This grave contains all that was
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to be engraven on his tombstone:
"Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water"

John Keats
 

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