Author: Maria Teresa Micaela, Dr Prendergast File Type: epub Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 15881617 is the first book to consider railing plays and pamphlets as participating in a coherent literary movement that dominated much of the English literary landscape during the late Elizabethanearly Jacobean period. Author Prendergast considers how these crisis-ridden texts on religious, gender, and aesthetic controversies were encouraged and supported by the emergence of the professional theater and print pamphlets. She argues that railing texts by Shakespeare, Nashe, Jonson, Jane Anger and others became sites for articulating anxious emotionsincluding fears about the stability of England after the death of Queen Elizabeth and the increasing factional splits between Protestant groups. But, given that railings about religious and political matters often led to censorship or even death, most railing writers chose to circumvent such possible repercussions by railing against unconventional gender identity, perverse sexual proclivities, and controversial aesthetics. In the process, Prendergast argues, railers shaped an anti-aesthetics that was itself dependent on the very expressions of perverse gender and sexuality that they discursively condemned, an aesthetics that created a conceptual third space in which bitter enemiesmale or female, conformist or nonconformistcould bond by engaging in collaborative experiments with dialogical invective. By considering a literary mode of articulation that vehemently counters dominant literary discourse, this book changes the way that we look at late Elizabethan and early Jacobean literature, as it associates works that have been studied in isolation from each other with a larger, coherent literary movement. **Review Prendergasts focus on the poetics of railing brings together texts and episodes in English literary history-the Marprelate Controversy, the Harvey-Nashe quarrel, the war of the theaters, anti-feminist pamphlets-and reclaims their literary energy and importance. Behind the aggressive language of vituperation, degraded sexuality and hate is an experimental literary community playing with aesthetic boundaries in relation to the novel spaces of the professional stage and the printed pamphlet. This is an important book that captures the generative queerness of railing language and of the bonds between railing writers. Alexandra Halasz, Dartmouth College, USA ... Prendergasts text offers fresh insights that show how the intersections of print and theater culture create a common site of aesthetic crisis and invites further conversation surrounding its analogues in the sociohistorical upheavals at the turn of the seventeenth century. Renaissance Quarterly Prendergast has written an interesting book that will connect with the work of many scholars. Indeed, the facility with which Prendergast moves from critic to critic, building on their various insights, is impressive and can offer a critical guide for those interested in pursuing this subject further. Comparative Drama ... this is a lucidly argued and consistently interesting book about the literary and social forms that railing can take. Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 ...certainly an ambi-tious and interesting study of a remarkable cultural phenomenon. SHARP News ... Prendergast excels in unpacking textual evidence, plumbing various perverse definitions and unexpected shadings of metaphor in tracts and plays. She engages topicality, as studies of railing and satire must, but is not bound by such constraints, a freedom that allows her excellent etymological and analytical work to open up these difficult texts for readers, allowing them to understand the multifarious possibilities of meaning. ... Sixteenth Century Journal ... this book constitutes a coherent, convincing, and important exploration of an oft-overlooked experimental phase in the development of early modern English literature and drama. Renaissance & Reformation Prendergast identifies many unforced connections between railing rhetoric and contemporary queer theory and uses them productively. This book offers a fresh and invigorating perspective on railing, its relationship to the subject, and the paradoxical way in which railers both relish and revile the rhetoric they employ. Modern Language Review About the Author Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast is Assistant Professor of English, The College of Wooster, USA.

Author: Yaroslav Komarovski File Type: pdf This landmark book discusses the thought of Tibetan Buddhist thinker Shakya Chokden (1428 1507) on the two major systems of Mah y na Buddhism. Influential and controversial in his own day, Shakya Chokden s thought fell out of favor over time and his writings were eventually repressed, becoming available again only in the 1970s. Yet, his startling interpretations of the core areas of Buddhist thought remain valuable and well worth consideration today. Yaroslav Komarovski has used the twenty-four volumes of Shakya Chokden s collected work to provide a systematic presentation of a central aspect of his thought a reconciliation of Yog c ra and Madhyamaka. Providing a detailed analysis of the two systems mutual refutations of each other, Shakya Chokden argues for their fundamental compatibility and shared vision. In analyzing Shakya Chokden s ideas, Komarovski explores some of the most important issues of both traditional and modern Buddhist scholarship, including contested approaches to the nature of reality, the relationship between philosophy and contemplative practice, inter- and intrasectarian Buddhist polemics, and the nature of consciousness and mental processes. **