{"product_id":"being-of-two-minds-modernist-literary-criticism-and-early-modern-texts-paperback-1","title":"Being of Two Minds: Modernist Literary Criticism and Early Modern Texts - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonathan Goldberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeing of Two Minds\u003c\/i\u003e examines the place that early modern literature held in Modernist literary criticism. For T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and William Empson, the early modern period helps model a literary future. At stake in their engagements across time were ontological questions about literature and its ability to mediate between the one and the many, the particular and the general, life and death, the past and the present. If reading and writing literature enables the mind to be in two places at once, creative experience serves as a way to participate in an expanded field of consciousness alongside mortality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGoldberg reads the readings that these modernists performed on texts that Eliot claimed for the canon like the metaphysical poets and Jacobean dramatists, but also Shakespeare, Milton, Montaigne, and Margaret Cavendish. Ontological concerns are reflected in Eliot's engagement with Aristotle's theory of the soul and Empson's Buddhism. These arguments about being affect minds and bodies and call into question sexual normativity: Eliot glances at a sodomitical male-male mode of literary transmission; Woolf produces a Judith Shakespeare to model androgynous being; Empson refuses to distinguish activity from passivity to rewrite gender difference. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe work of one of our leading literary and cultural critics, \u003ci\u003eBeing of Two Minds\u003c\/i\u003e spans centuries to show how the most compelling and surprising ideas about mind, experience, and existence not only move between early modernity, high modernism, and our own moment, but are also constituted through that very movement between times and minds.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A major critical voice in our time, Jonathan Goldberg tracks proliferating antinomies in the texts of early modern lyric poets from Shakespeare to Donne and, triumphantly, Herbert. He does so through readings of visionary twentieth-century critics, notably Empson, on how poetry opens life to ontic states beyond the scope of life itself.\"--\u003cb\u003eGordon Teskey\u003c\/b\u003e, Harvard University \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Goldberg's ingenious close readings bring out fresh and unexpected implications concerning gender, sexuality, subjectivity, and poetics. In the spirit of Ezra Pound's famous rallying-cry 'make it new, ' Goldberg renews and revitalizes the early modern canon along with the masterworks of modernist criticism.\"--\u003cb\u003eMaud Ellmann\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Chicago \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeing of Two Minds\u003c\/i\u003e examines the place that early modern literature held in Modernist literary criticism. For T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and William Empson, the early modern period helps model a literary future. At stake in their engagements across time were ontological questions about literature and its ability to mediate between the one and the many, the particular and the general, life and death, the past and the present. If reading and writing literature enables the mind to be in two places at once, creative experience serves as a way to participate in an expanded field of consciousness alongside mortality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGoldberg reads the readings that these modernists performed on the metaphysical poets and Jacobean dramatists, but also Shakespeare, Milton, Montaigne, and Margaret Cavendish. The arguments they generate about being affect minds and bodies and call into question sexual normativity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeing of Two Minds\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the most compelling and surprising ideas about mind, experience, and existence not only move between early modernity, high modernism, and our own moment, but are also constituted through that very movement between times and minds. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Goldberg\u003c\/b\u003e is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Emory University. His many books include \u003ci\u003eCome As You Are\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSaint Marks\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMelodrama\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eSodometries\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Goldberg\u003c\/b\u003e is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Emory University. His many books include \u003ci\u003eCome As You Are, After Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSaint Marks: Words, Images, and What Persists\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMelodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing centers on early modernity but ranges from Sappho and Willa Cather to Patricia Highsmith and Todd Haynes in exploring questions of materiality and sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 20, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703744786739,"sku":"9781531501617","price":63.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/c041WnY3ajExV1duclhvM3ZtSkRsUT09_c44a226a-4221-484a-be2a-3bf6ffb552c5.webp?v=1763337660","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/being-of-two-minds-modernist-literary-criticism-and-early-modern-texts-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}