eBook

Blotted Lines

Desai, Adhaar Noor

2023

Overview

Blotted Lines rebuffs centuries of mythologization about the creative process-the idea that William Shakespeare \"never blotted out line\"-to argue that by studying how early modern writers faced the challenges of writing poetry, instructors today can empower their students' approaches to critical writing. Adhaar Noor Desai offers deeply researched accounts of how poetic labor intersected with early modern rhetorical theory, material culture, and social networks. Tracing the productive struggles of such writers as George Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, John Davies of Hereford, Lady Anne Southwell, and Shakespeare across their manuscripts, Desai identifies in their work instances of discomposition: frustration, hesitation, self-doubt, and insecurity. Inspired to unmake their poems so that they might remake them, these poets welcomed discomposition because it catalyzed ongoing thinking and learning. Blotted Lines brings literary scholarship into conversation with modern composition studies, challenging early modern literary studies to treat writing as both noun and verb and foregrounding the ways poetry and criticism alike can model for students the cultivation of patience, collaboration, and risk in their writing.

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Subject: 16th century / 17th century / 18th century / British Studies / early modern literary studies / early modern poetics / Early modern, 1500-1700 / English literature / English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism / English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.GBC375462 / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh / European / European Studies / History / History and criticism / invention of literary studies / Language & Literature / LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Poetry / LITERARY CRITICISM / LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh / LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance / LITERARY STUDIES / MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES / Poetics / Poetics -- History -- 16th century / Poetics -- History -- 17th century / Poetics -- History -- 18th century / POETRY & CRITICISM / Renaissance / Shakespeare / teaching writing in the literature classroom / writing poetry / writing practices in early modern England
• ISBN: 9781501769849, 1501769847, 9781501769856, 1501769855, 1501769863, 9781501769832, 9781501769863, 1501769839