Fortunately, there were many nurses in my village, including Amazonian ones, who took care of my two foundlings during my absence. My gratitude to these nurses is many and deep. My first home at Vanderbilt was, and remains, the English Department, and I am especially grateful to everyone who served as Director of Graduate Studies during my time there: Dana.
Erotic Time
Although each of the early modern writers I study in this dissertation associates erotic feeling with. 5 Morris Palmer Tilley, Dictionary of the Proverbs of England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1950), C426.
Strange Time
The specific temporal engagements he examines are mourning, death, and messianic hope, which he chooses because they are situations "in which our traditional models of time trap us." Grosz, The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004), 5.
The Body/Clock Similitude
The spirit "swells" towards the "wheel" in the teachers' dance and draws him into Heaven. At the time when Dante and de Pisan were writing, the clock was a not uncommon but still relatively new feature in the city.
Text Selection Rationale & Chapter Descriptions
In Chapter 1, "Missing the Mark in Love's Labour's Lost: Shakespeare and Kairotics of Education," I identify a potential source of the eroticism of timekeeping in Tudor educational practices. Love’s Labour’s Lost, I argue in the second section, highlights the appeal of an increasingly dominant educational management of time.
From Birch to Bell
In his nineteenth-century "Introduction—Historical" to his translation of John Amos Comenius' The Great Didactic (c. 1632), M.W. Comenius the role of the grid that he elaborates in such great practical detail in the Outline more theoretically in The Great Didactic, which includes a section that is practically a point to the clock.
From Bell to Boy
HANGING THE WATCH: EROTIC TIMEKEEPING AND TEMPORAL CYNICISM IN
Despite his nominal association with childhood, he is one of the most witty and perceptive characters in the play. In the play, this reversal of the traditional man-boy hierarchy heralds the end of education.
Temporal Cynicism
While Berowne, like many of Shakespeare's protagonists, wants to manage time and finds time ever sexier because he ends up managing it, The Roaring Girl's protagonist, Moll Cutpurse, wants very little to do with managing time in the urological sense . A different, though related, kind of freedom is associated with the philosopher in Thomas Wilson's The Art of Rhetoric (1553), where Diogenes is the second most frequently quoted philosopher. Lyly's play was printed in four editions in one year and performed both at court before Queen Elizabeth and at Blackfriars.
The strategy allowed for a balance in the dynamics of pleasure and desire: it prevented this dynamic from 'running away' and becoming excessive, by setting the satisfaction of a need as an internal limit; and it prevented this force of nature from rising up and usurping a place that was not its own, because it only provided what was necessary. Instead, by delving into the philosopher's late readings, scholars including David Mazella and David Hershinow have shown how Shakespeare in particular used philosophy to explore issues of both freedom of speech and the freedom of things .100 However, as Foucault's commentary makes clear, underlying these freedoms is the same idea that underlies Diogenes's confrontation with the dial: to become self-sufficient, all you have to do is follow your natural, bodily needs.101.
Erotic Timekeeping
Unless otherwise noted, further citations of The Roaring Girl refer to this edition, which does not create act divisions, with scene and line numbers given in parentheses. The pocket watch appears in one of The Roaring Girls' most climactic scenes: the trial or honesty test of its titular heroine, Moll Cutpurse. Transgression: The Jacobean Connection,” Renaissance Drama Marjorie Garber, “The Logic of the Transvestite: The Roaring Girl” in Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, eds.
Stephen Orgel, "The Subtexts of The Roaring Girl," in Erotic Politics: Desire on the Renaissance Stage, ed. Dit antisipeer Audre Lorde se ambisieuse en beslis on-siniese formulering in "The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power": die erotiese.
Hanging the Watch
The play calls attention to the unbridled potential of the erotic time spent in the theater by playgoers—potential to make connections and foster critique. His works allow us to imagine erotic timing outside the theater, on the pulpit and on the page. In the case of grief over an untimely death, it is not so easy to discern God's My fecit on the guard of the world.
Catherine Gimelli Martin, for example, argues that The First Anniversarie criticizes the scientific progressivism of Bacon's The Advancement of Learning by reviving the old belief in the decay of the world. 161 Jonathan Gil Harris, Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), 3.
Puncturing Punctuality
This privileging of painful feelings and the failure of the didacticism that thrives on that pain within The First Anniversarie necessitates the attempt to renew the thinking in The Second Anniversarie. This turn toward recognizing the importance of embodied time, especially the present moment, continues into the Second Anniversary. 174 Timothy Harrison, “John Donne, the Moment of Change and the Time of the Body” ELH (forthcoming).
What is, in the First Anniversary, an attention to the split biological clock of the world here in the Second Anniversary. Donne's figure is evocative of a clock whose hands originate at the center and reach twice towards the circumference.
Getting Raw
And though his poverty is not of God's making, but of the devils, brought about by his sedition and prodigality, however poverty the devils may be, yet man is still of God's making. As a bell gives a warning before it strikes, and then there remains a sound, and a tingle of the bell after it has struck: so a precedent meditation and a subsequent rumination make the prayer a prayer; I must first think about what I will ask, and then think again about what I have asked. These paradoxical features of the clock come together in Donne's Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), which are themselves structured according to the sequence.
Later in the Devotions, Donne again reflects on the clock in Meditation 15, this time on the occasion of his insomnia. At first he considers reading time from the clock, while one cannot sleep in the light of eternal sleep, as useless: it is only a measure of earthly time in which one is obliged to work according to the heavenly clock.
Testing Time
And because our clock did not strike as often as it should have done when it struck eleven, and yet for a while afterwards struck too often when it struck only two, because the first time it was midnight, and the second time only one of the clock; To judge whether what is said is the right length, we must therefore not so much look at whether it is a little or a lot, but rather whether a man speaks at the right time and does not say more or less than he should.189 Boyle uses his constant watchful clock-watching to practice, not for eternal awakening, but to put into practice his experimental method of drawing conclusions about decorum on Earth. Such meditations would be much less clock-induced when the pendulum regulator was more widely found in devices. Sellin writes: 'Donne seems to have exerted a special attraction on an outspoken orthodox Calvinist like Constantijn Huygens, whose Heilige Daghen – not to mention his translations from the Elegies, the Songs and Sonets and the Divine Poems – may have been an ultimate moment. of poetic poetry. tribute unequaled among contemporaries in England.'190 Perhaps the older Huygens' poetic appeal unconsciously produced his son's desire to regulate the clock.
In other words: for Milton, thinking about the clock and about clock time borders on thinking about identity, the consciousness of which he considers dependent on the temporal consciousness that the clock represents. The clock in Milton's poetry is thus far from un-erotic and represents an exciting and horrifying element of the erotic: it represents the merging of the self – physical and/or psychological – with the other.
On Time,” Women’s Time, and the Cronus Myth
The poet's use of the trope of devouring time as his overarching message is more so. His poem is an exploration of the ugly as Kristeva describes it: “the discarded object, [which]. 199 The concern for land use is consistent with Hesiod's general interest in animal husbandry.
202 See Morris Palmer Tilley, "TIME devours (consumes, wears out) all things" in A Dictionary of The Proverbs in England and in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1950), p.670 . 204 These contemporary references demonstrate that the "womb" of mortal Time for which the clock is a metaphor was proverbial in Milton's poem.
Time, Sexual Difference, and Individuation in Paradise Lost
Juliet Cummins (Cambridge University Press Sherry Lutz Zivley, 'The Thirty-Three Days of Paradise Lost'. Michael also explains to Adam and Eve near the end of the poem that the Israelites will "win the laws by their delay / In the wide Wilderness ” and their leadership (12.223), with the Israelites clearly both male and female. While the simile I have traced—the similarity between the timekeeping device and the body—time embodied before even the earliest works studied here, the equivalence between time and money instead of time and the body seemingly only became proverbial until the Jacobean period, during the years of The Roaring Girl and the Anniversaries.
As Elisabeth Liebert has argued, the difference between Adam and Eve and the separation of their problems in the epic is far from clear: “The paradox explored by Paradise Lost is the infinitesimal degree of hierarchical difference between husband and wife, the paradigm of the balance of power and. As the end of Paradise Lost suggests, when Adam and Eve "hand in hand with a scepter ring and slowly, / Through Eden went their lonely way," the problem is not the time or space that any individual has lost. A Clock So True': The Chronometry of Virtue in Donne's 'Obsequyes vpon the Lord Harrington', English Literary Renaissance.
Moll Cutpurse's Sexual Identities in Middleton and Dekker's The Roaring Girl and in London. Renaissance and Reformation.
