Download or read book Language in Colonization, Renaissance Poetry and Shakespeare written by Jonathan Hart and published by . This book was released on 2024-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Language is the central concern of this book. Colonization, poetry and Shakespeare - and the Renaissance itself - provide the examples. I concentrate on text in context, of close reading, interpretation, interpoetics and translation with particular instances and works, examining matters of interpoetics in Renaissance poetry and prose, including epic, and the Hugo translation of Shakespeare in France and trying to bring together analysis that shows how important language is in the age of European expansion and in the Renaissance. I am trying to provide close analysis of colonization, front matter (paratext) in poetry and prose, and Shakespeare that deserve more attention. The main themes and objectives of this monograph are an exploration of language in European colonial texts of the "New World," paratexts or front matter, Renaissance poetry and Shakespeare and to do so through close reading, including interpoetics (liminality), translation and key words"--