Mapping the Poetics of Early Modern Garden and Lyric Traditions explores the reciprocal relationship between the poet and his surroundings by examining how the major aesthetic conventions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries take shape from the common topoi of poems and gardens. To place love poetry in the garden and the garden in love poetry was not just a reiteration of old metaphors; it was a kind of decorum, a means of matching work to site in a way that could offer readers a rich array of multi-media allusions and varied (sometimes paradoxically varied) points of view. In order to demonstrate this aesthetic interchange between garden and lyric, the present study ranges through a number of generic spaces, from sixteenth-century plays and sonnet sequences to seventeenth-century pastoral modes. The first chapter examines how the garden commonplace functions as as a signifier of lyric praxis, the second connects the topography of the early English garden to the mise-en-page of printed lyric collections, the third explores Shakespeare's performative uses of the staged garden in relation to collaborative acts of audience agency, while the fourth analyzes the eco-aesthetic of the color green in the garden descriptions of Milton and Marvell. By drawing attention to the distinctively trans-generic and trans-media manifestations of the garden/lyric commonplace, this study introduces new perspectives on the cultural value of form and its involvement in matters of genre, embodiment, environment, and self-fashioning. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Philosophy. / Spring Semester, 2015. / February 9, 2015. / Includes bibliographical references. / A. E. B. Coldiron, Professor Directing Dissertation; Stephanie Leitch, University Representative; Gary Taylor, Committee Member; Bruce Boehrer, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_253485 |
| Contributors | Solomon, Deborah Cosier (authoraut), Coldiron, A. E. B. (Anne Elizabeth Banks) (professor directing dissertation), Leitch, Stephanie (university representative), Taylor, Gary, 1963- (committee member), Boehrer, Bruce Thomas (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Arts and Sciences (degree granting college), Department of English (degree granting department) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource (224 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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