Against Reproduction: Where Renaissance Texts Come from

by Stephen Guy-Bray

Book Overview

The idea of the author as parent and the text as child is a pervasive metaphor throughout Renaissance poetry and drama. In Against Reproduction, Stephen Guy-Bray sets out to systematically interrogate this common trope, and to consider the limits of using heterosexual reproduction to think of textual creation.

Through an analysis of Renaissance texts by poets and playwrights including William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and John Milton,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487554249
• ISBN13: 9781487554248
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher