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Literary Criticism Poetry

Chamber Music

Elizabethan Sonnet-Sequences and the Pleasure of Criticism

by (author) Roger Kuin

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Initial publish date
Mar 1998
Category
Poetry, Shakespeare, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Renaissance
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781442614987
    Publish Date
    Oct 2012
    List Price
    $34.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442672826
    Publish Date
    Feb 1998
    List Price
    $84.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802041883
    Publish Date
    Mar 1998
    List Price
    $76.00

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Description

Roger Kuin's Chamber Music is a playfully written, imaginative, and ultimately demanding book, with a critical approach characterized by an unusual and indiosynchratic post-modern critical style that will challenge the reader's perceptions of what a book of criticism should and can do.

Analysing the sonnet sequences of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare both from an interpretive angle and from the perspective of a post-modern re-evaluation of the Renaissance sonnets, Roger Kuin's discussion is influenced by many modern literary critics, including Roland Barthes and Umberto Eco. Kuin focuses on the problems inherent in the form of the sonnet sequence, emphasizing the various forms of indeterminacy central to their meaning. His sense of the intertextual relationship among the major English sequences is subtle, and in places, strikingly original, in combination with a highly sophisticated understanding of theory.

Chamber Music is a book that will infuriate many, but ultimately reward those who flow with its idiosyncratic style towards Roger Kuin's admirable and expert conclusions.

About the author

Roger Kuin is a member of the Department of English, McLaughlin College, York University.

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