Arthi Ramachandran
Biographic Data
| ID | 140629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthi Ramachandran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthi |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramachandran |
| SIGNATURE | RAMACHANDRAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2936-4030 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Worldmaking and Early Modernity: Cartographic Poesis in Europe and South Asia
This essay develops a literary history of the concept “world” in the early modern period, suggesting that particular literary strategies—speculation, scalar juxtaposition, allegory, philology, and lexical play—became integral to imagining, naming, and shaping a particular vision of “world” across a range of media. Through a comparative study of European and South Asian examples, it shows how worldmaking literature in the early modern period can b…
The potential of online social networking data for augmenting the study of high-risk personal networks among young men who have sex with men at-risk for HIV
Socio-Structural and Neighborhood Predictors of Incident Criminal Justice Involvement in a Population-Based Cohort of Young Black MSM and Transgender Women
Allegories of Influence: Spenser, Chaucer and Italian Romance
This essay reflects upon Renaissance writers' self-reflexive meditations on literary genealogy, by examining Edmund Spenser's allusive interrogation of his relationship to Chaucer on the one hand, and to Boiardo and Ariosto, on the other in Book IV of The Faerie Queene . Focusing on the emblematic tale of Cambell and Triamond, and its striking resolution by the introduction of Cambina, a romance enchantress in bono , it argues that Spenser strate…
Lines of Beauty: In Honor of David Quint
Lines of Beauty:In Honor of David Quint Ayesha Ramachandran (bio), Rocco Rubini (bio), and Sarah Van der Laan (bio) The vision of Petrarch clutching his copy of Virgil in the last days of his life remains a resonant emblem of the Renaissance: the exhilarating rediscovery of a long-lost past, the poignant experience of historical difference, and the desire to speak in turn to an unknown future. Drawing together past and future into an uncertain pr…
The Uses of Lyric in Orlando Furioso
The Uses of Lyric in Orlando Furioso Ayesha Ramachandran In the famous, central canto 23 of Ludovico Ariosto’s romance-epic, as Orlando descends into madness, the poem moves into a distinctly Petrarchan landscape. The selva oscura of desire, of Dante and of Donato’s dispersed self, gives way to the “liete piante, verdi erbe, limpide acque” of the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta.1 Searching for his beloved, Orlando comes upon a locus amoenus beside a st…
"How to Theorize the "World: An Early Modern Manifesto
This essay examines contemporary theorizations of intellectual scale, by asking how we can move, with integrity, from particular experiences to universal claims. To do so, I return to the "Fool's Cap Map," an allegorical print from the early modern period and show how the image goes beyond traditional tropes of macrocosm and microcosm by invoking and inventing a cosmopolitan critical subjectivity. This, I argue, can be a model for rethinking the …
Chapter Three. Cosmic Politics: The Worldly Epics of Camões and Spenser
Expanding its gaze from the scale of the individual self to the communal order of the nation-state, this chapter approaches the challenge of worldmaking through the Renaissance epic. Luis Vaz de Camões’s Os Lusíadas and Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene epitomize the clash between the imperial and global scales, re-staging the collisions between political and cosmic order that Vergil celebrated in the Aeneid. This chapter considers how such a na…
Chapter Two. On Cosmographic Autobiography: Montaigne’s Essais
A counterpart to the symbolic affinities between the knowing self and the unknowable world in Mercator’s Atlas, the Essais reveal, from the perspective of the late Renaissance, the profound epistemic links between self-examination and global exploration. This chapter therefore considers the development of a distinctly modern relationship between self and world as it evolves through the New World essays and the monumental “Apologie de Raimond Sebo…
Chapter One. Mapping the Body, Mapping the World: Mercator’s Atlas
Chapter Four. Cartesian Romance: Universal Origins and Le Monde
By the seventeenth century, the terms “world” and “cosmos” would become almost interchangeable: chapter four explores this further expansion in scale in René Descartes’s Le monde (The World) whose title refers, in fact, to the universe. Though celebrated for his invention of the cogito, this chapter argues for Descartes’s significance as a revolutionary worldmaker: Le monde imagines the creation of a hypothetical world (a “new world”) in order to…
Introduction. Worldmaking and the Project of Modernity
The prologue describes the epistemic problems of knowing and representing the world as a whole (“worldmaking”) in historical perspective. Focusing on lexical shifts in the meaning of “world” over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in both classical and vernacular terminology, it shows that metaphors of making and craftsmanship, or poiesis, are central to this renovation of the term. It discusses representative images of the wo…
Epilogue. From Cosmography to Cosmopolitanism
The epilogue begins with an explication of the famous Fool’s Cap Map and outlines the major thematic arcs of the book’s meditation on worldmaking: the circular dialectic from the self to world and back again; the strategic discursive shift from cosmography to cosmopolitanism over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the emergence of a global international politics and moral philosophy; and the essential role of the speculative, …
Chapter Five. “This Pendant World”: Creating Miltonic Modernity
The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe
Montaigne’s Tasso: Madness, melancholy and the enigma of Italy
This essay re-examines the question of Montaigne’s view of contemporary Italy and Italians by focusing on his allusions to Tasso in the Essais. It places Montaigne’s Italianism in the context of the virulent anti-Italian polemics in France in the 1570s and 1580s, and argues that his strategic choice of Tasso as an emblem for Italy, following his tour of the peninsula in 1580 to 1581, points to a conflicted, deeply ambivalent perspective on Franco…
Errance et cohérence: Essai sur la littérature transfrontalière à la Renaissance
Edmund Spenser, Lucretian Neoplatonist: Cosmology in the Fowre Hymnes
This essay reconsiders the relationship between Spenser’s earthly and divine hymns in terms of the dialogic possibilities of the palinode, suggesting that the apparent “recantation” of the first two hymns is a poetic device used for philosophic effect. I argue that Spenser uses the poetic movement of action and retraction, turn and counterturn, to embody a philosophical oscillation and synthesis between a newly rediscovered Lucretian materialism …
L’idée de fable: Théories de la fiction poétique à la Renaissance Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 423
Teresa Chevrolet. L’idée de fable: Théories de la fiction poétique à la Renaissance. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 423. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2007. 762 pp. index. tbls. bibl. CHF 120. ISBN: 978-2-600-01107-5. - Volume 61 Issue 2
Tasso's Petrarch: The Lyric Means to Epic Ends
This paper argues that Petrarchan lyric poetics were instrumental for Tasso's development of a successful vernacular epic. Following discussions of epic and lyric in his prose, I trace the relationship between Tasso's poetic theory and practice by examining Petrarchan allusions in the Gerusalemme liberata. I show how the Rime sparse becomes instrumental for Tasso's successful integration of romance variety and meraviglia into the cinquecento epic…
Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance
Alex Davis. Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance. Studies in Renaissance Literature 11. Cambridge and Rochester: D. S. Brewer, 2003. viii + 263 pp. index, bibl. $85. ISBN: 0-85991-777-0. - Volume 57 Issue 3
The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe
Socio-Structural and Neighborhood Predictors of Incident Criminal Justice Involvement in a Population-Based Cohort of Young Black MSM and Transgender Women
The Uses of Lyric in Orlando Furioso
The Uses of Lyric in Orlando Furioso Ayesha Ramachandran In the famous, central canto 23 of Ludovico Ariosto’s romance-epic, as Orlando descends into madness, the poem moves into a distinctly Petrarchan landscape. The selva oscura of desire, of Dante and of Donato’s dispersed self, gives way to the “liete piante, verdi erbe, limpide acque” of the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta.1 Searching for his beloved, Orlando comes upon a locus amoenus beside a st…
Montaigne’s Tasso: Madness, melancholy and the enigma of Italy
This essay re-examines the question of Montaigne’s view of contemporary Italy and Italians by focusing on his allusions to Tasso in the Essais. It places Montaigne’s Italianism in the context of the virulent anti-Italian polemics in France in the 1570s and 1580s, and argues that his strategic choice of Tasso as an emblem for Italy, following his tour of the peninsula in 1580 to 1581, points to a conflicted, deeply ambivalent perspective on Franco…
Tasso's Petrarch: The Lyric Means to Epic Ends
This paper argues that Petrarchan lyric poetics were instrumental for Tasso's development of a successful vernacular epic. Following discussions of epic and lyric in his prose, I trace the relationship between Tasso's poetic theory and practice by examining Petrarchan allusions in the Gerusalemme liberata. I show how the Rime sparse becomes instrumental for Tasso's successful integration of romance variety and meraviglia into the cinquecento epic…
Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance
Alex Davis. Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance. Studies in Renaissance Literature 11. Cambridge and Rochester: D. S. Brewer, 2003. viii + 263 pp. index, bibl. $85. ISBN: 0-85991-777-0. - Volume 57 Issue 3
Tasso's Petrarch: The Lyric Means to Epic Ends
This paper argues that Petrarchan lyric poetics were instrumental for Tasso's development of a successful vernacular epic. Following discussions of epic and lyric in his prose, I trace the relationship between Tasso's poetic theory and practice by examining Petrarchan allusions in the Gerusalemme liberata. I show how the Rime sparse becomes instrumental for Tasso's successful integration of romance variety and meraviglia into the cinquecento epic…
L’idée de fable: Théories de la fiction poétique à la Renaissance Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 423
Teresa Chevrolet. L’idée de fable: Théories de la fiction poétique à la Renaissance. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 423. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2007. 762 pp. index. tbls. bibl. CHF 120. ISBN: 978-2-600-01107-5. - Volume 61 Issue 2
Edmund Spenser, Lucretian Neoplatonist: Cosmology in the Fowre Hymnes
This essay reconsiders the relationship between Spenser’s earthly and divine hymns in terms of the dialogic possibilities of the palinode, suggesting that the apparent “recantation” of the first two hymns is a poetic device used for philosophic effect. I argue that Spenser uses the poetic movement of action and retraction, turn and counterturn, to embody a philosophical oscillation and synthesis between a newly rediscovered Lucretian materialism …
Errance et cohérence: Essai sur la littérature transfrontalière à la Renaissance
Montaigne’s Tasso: Madness, melancholy and the enigma of Italy
This essay re-examines the question of Montaigne’s view of contemporary Italy and Italians by focusing on his allusions to Tasso in the Essais. It places Montaigne’s Italianism in the context of the virulent anti-Italian polemics in France in the 1570s and 1580s, and argues that his strategic choice of Tasso as an emblem for Italy, following his tour of the peninsula in 1580 to 1581, points to a conflicted, deeply ambivalent perspective on Franco…
Chapter Three. Cosmic Politics: The Worldly Epics of Camões and Spenser
Expanding its gaze from the scale of the individual self to the communal order of the nation-state, this chapter approaches the challenge of worldmaking through the Renaissance epic. Luis Vaz de Camões’s Os Lusíadas and Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene epitomize the clash between the imperial and global scales, re-staging the collisions between political and cosmic order that Vergil celebrated in the Aeneid. This chapter considers how such a na…
Chapter Two. On Cosmographic Autobiography: Montaigne’s Essais
A counterpart to the symbolic affinities between the knowing self and the unknowable world in Mercator’s Atlas, the Essais reveal, from the perspective of the late Renaissance, the profound epistemic links between self-examination and global exploration. This chapter therefore considers the development of a distinctly modern relationship between self and world as it evolves through the New World essays and the monumental “Apologie de Raimond Sebo…
Chapter One. Mapping the Body, Mapping the World: Mercator’s Atlas
Chapter Four. Cartesian Romance: Universal Origins and Le Monde
By the seventeenth century, the terms “world” and “cosmos” would become almost interchangeable: chapter four explores this further expansion in scale in René Descartes’s Le monde (The World) whose title refers, in fact, to the universe. Though celebrated for his invention of the cogito, this chapter argues for Descartes’s significance as a revolutionary worldmaker: Le monde imagines the creation of a hypothetical world (a “new world”) in order to…
Introduction. Worldmaking and the Project of Modernity
The prologue describes the epistemic problems of knowing and representing the world as a whole (“worldmaking”) in historical perspective. Focusing on lexical shifts in the meaning of “world” over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in both classical and vernacular terminology, it shows that metaphors of making and craftsmanship, or poiesis, are central to this renovation of the term. It discusses representative images of the wo…
Epilogue. From Cosmography to Cosmopolitanism
The epilogue begins with an explication of the famous Fool’s Cap Map and outlines the major thematic arcs of the book’s meditation on worldmaking: the circular dialectic from the self to world and back again; the strategic discursive shift from cosmography to cosmopolitanism over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the emergence of a global international politics and moral philosophy; and the essential role of the speculative, …
Chapter Five. “This Pendant World”: Creating Miltonic Modernity
The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe
"How to Theorize the "World: An Early Modern Manifesto
This essay examines contemporary theorizations of intellectual scale, by asking how we can move, with integrity, from particular experiences to universal claims. To do so, I return to the "Fool's Cap Map," an allegorical print from the early modern period and show how the image goes beyond traditional tropes of macrocosm and microcosm by invoking and inventing a cosmopolitan critical subjectivity. This, I argue, can be a model for rethinking the …
The Uses of Lyric in Orlando Furioso
The Uses of Lyric in Orlando Furioso Ayesha Ramachandran In the famous, central canto 23 of Ludovico Ariosto’s romance-epic, as Orlando descends into madness, the poem moves into a distinctly Petrarchan landscape. The selva oscura of desire, of Dante and of Donato’s dispersed self, gives way to the “liete piante, verdi erbe, limpide acque” of the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta.1 Searching for his beloved, Orlando comes upon a locus amoenus beside a st…
The potential of online social networking data for augmenting the study of high-risk personal networks among young men who have sex with men at-risk for HIV
Socio-Structural and Neighborhood Predictors of Incident Criminal Justice Involvement in a Population-Based Cohort of Young Black MSM and Transgender Women
Allegories of Influence: Spenser, Chaucer and Italian Romance
This essay reflects upon Renaissance writers' self-reflexive meditations on literary genealogy, by examining Edmund Spenser's allusive interrogation of his relationship to Chaucer on the one hand, and to Boiardo and Ariosto, on the other in Book IV of The Faerie Queene . Focusing on the emblematic tale of Cambell and Triamond, and its striking resolution by the introduction of Cambina, a romance enchantress in bono , it argues that Spenser strate…
Lines of Beauty: In Honor of David Quint
Lines of Beauty:In Honor of David Quint Ayesha Ramachandran (bio), Rocco Rubini (bio), and Sarah Van der Laan (bio) The vision of Petrarch clutching his copy of Virgil in the last days of his life remains a resonant emblem of the Renaissance: the exhilarating rediscovery of a long-lost past, the poignant experience of historical difference, and the desire to speak in turn to an unknown future. Drawing together past and future into an uncertain pr…
Worldmaking and Early Modernity: Cartographic Poesis in Europe and South Asia
This essay develops a literary history of the concept “world” in the early modern period, suggesting that particular literary strategies—speculation, scalar juxtaposition, allegory, philology, and lexical play—became integral to imagining, naming, and shaping a particular vision of “world” across a range of media. Through a comparative study of European and South Asian examples, it shows how worldmaking literature in the early modern period can b…
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