Catherine Bates
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Bates |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Bates |
| SIGNATURE | BATES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4060-9983 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Oxford Handbook of Philip Sidney
This is a comprehensive collection of essays on the life, work, and times of the Elizabethan writer and courtier, Philip Sidney (1554–1586), one of the most important figures of the English Renaissance. Contributors to the volume are experts in the field and bring new discoveries and insights into Sidney and his central place in the history and culture of this period. The volume offers up-to-date interpretations of Sidney’s literary and non-liter…
Oxford Handbook of Philip Sidney
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts
The Imaginary and the Symbolic in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis
This article unfolds a broadly Lacanian reading of Shakespeare’s poem, Venus and Adonis (1593). In this mythological tale of a mortal youth whose relation with a goddess is fatally severed when a boar gores him in the thigh, it finds an allegory of oedipalization: the experience of “castration” which impels the subject into absence, difference, language, adult sexuality, and desire. In its compensatory and redemptive capacity, language offers to …
Ripples of Becoming-With: Co-creating a Postdisciplinary Module About Posthumanism
This article provides a diffractive reading of the second-year undergraduate university module on posthumanism that I teach. The module is designed specifically for mature students. I consider the “postdisciplinary” nature of the module, and think through the ways in which the module “becomes” through co-creation with the students. This involves a discussion of Braidotti’s (2019) notion of the posthuman university, Lykke’s (2018) conception of th…
The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture: From Mary Sidney to Aphra Behn
The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture: From Mary Sidney to Aphra Behn. Gary Waller. Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 288 pp. €105. - Volume 75 Issue 1
On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of Poesy
Sidney's Defence of Poesy'- the foundational text of English poetics - is generally taken to present a model of poetry as ideal: the poet depicts ideals of human conduct and readers are inspired to imitate them. Catherine Bates sets out to challenge this received view. Attending very closely to Sidney's text, she identifies within it a model of poetry that is markedly at variance from the one presumed, and shows Sidney's text to be feeling its wa…
A Companion to Renaissance Poetry
Covering the period 1520–1680, A Companion to Renaissance Poetry offers 46 essays which present an in-depth account of the context, production, and interpretation of early modern British poetry. It provides students with a deep appreciation for, and sensitivity toward, the ways in which poets of the period understood and fashioned a distinctly vernacular voice, while engaging them with some of the debates and departures that are currently animati…
Companion to Renaissance Poetry
Futile Pleasures: Early Modern Literature and the Limits of Utility
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Poetry Is Useful
One of the ways the Defence seeks to answer the charge of abuse is by arguing, conversely, that poetry is fruitful, useful, and forceful. This section unpacks and deconstructs these three denials in turn. In Menenius Agrippa’s famous tale of the body, food inside the belly equates to the allegorical kernel inside the narrative shell, showing how the ideology of ‘fullness’ or presence is deployed in the interests of the wealthy at the expense of t…
The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, Volume 1: Prose
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Deixis in the Early Modern English Lyric: Unsettling Spatial Anchors Like “Here,” “This,” “Come.”
Deixis in the Early Modern English Lyric: Unsettling Spatial Anchors Like “Here,” “This,” “Come.” Heather Dubrow. Palgrave Pivot. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. x + 136 pp. $67.50. - Volume 70 Issue 1
Mediatrix: Women, Politics, and Literary Production in Early Modern England
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Masculinity And The Hunt Wyatt To Spenser
Gascoigne's Prick
This chapter begins with Gascoigne’s most famous poem, “Woodmanship”, in which a lifetime of misdirected actions comes to be embodied by the metaphor of shooting “awry”. In a culture where hitting the mark emblematised the exercise of moderation and virtue, shooting awry signifies a mode of masculinity at distinct variance from the culturally approved norm. The chapter goes on to show how this figure of the bad woodman is the general type that li…
Masculinity, Gender, and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric
Bates, Catherine. Masculinity, Gender, and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 35, Number 2, Spring 2012, pp. 5-187), on Érudit
Sustainable urban foragings in the Canadian metropolis: Rummaging through Rita Wong's Forage and Nicholas Dickner's Nikolski
Sustainable urban foragings Foraging and ‘dumpster diving’ are activities associated with a kind of environmentally conscious social activism engaged in by those wanting to live sustainably by maintaining a close connection with the local. The former is generally associated with nature, the latter with the urban environment. Wong's poetry collection, Forage, and Dickner's novel, Nikolski, both feature those who scavenge within their urban environ…
The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity
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The Cambridge companion to the epic
"Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form of mock-epic. This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry from the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh to Derek Walcott's postcolonial Omeros. The list of epic poets analysed here includes some of the greatest writers in literary history…
Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature
Messing with the Archive: Back Doors, Rubbish and Traces in Robert Kroetsch's The Hornbooks of Rita K
In March 2005 I visited the Robert Kroetsch Fonds in the University \nof Calgary Special Collections. This consists of almost twenty linear \nmeters of material, including letters to Kroetsch from writers, publishers \nand academics, letters to and from family members, multiple drafts of \nhis major works and unpublished works, print-outs of e-mails he sent \nand received, plane and train ticket receipts, conference outlines and \ndrafts of paper…
Messing with the Archive: Back Doors, Rubbish and Traces in Robert Kroetsch'sThe Hornbooks of Rita K
Human pigmentation genes: Identification, structure and consequences of polymorphic variation
The synthesis of the visible pigment melanin by the melanocyte cell is the basis of the human pigmentary system, those genes directing the formation, transport and distribution of the specialised melanosome organelle in which melanin accumulates can legitimately be called pigmentation genes. The genes involved in this process have been identified through comparative genomic studies of mouse coat colour mutations and by the molecular characterisat…
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600
This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the tumult of Catholic and Protestant alliances during the Reformation, the age of printing and of New World discovery. In this century courtly literature under Henry VIII moves toward a new, more personal poetry of sentiment, narrative and romance. The development of English prose is s…
Sustainable urban foragings in the Canadian metropolis: Rummaging through Rita Wong's Forage and Nicholas Dickner's Nikolski
Sustainable urban foragings Foraging and ‘dumpster diving’ are activities associated with a kind of environmentally conscious social activism engaged in by those wanting to live sustainably by maintaining a close connection with the local. The former is generally associated with nature, the latter with the urban environment. Wong's poetry collection, Forage, and Dickner's novel, Nikolski, both feature those who scavenge within their urban environ…
Messing with the Archive: Back Doors, Rubbish and Traces in Robert Kroetsch's The Hornbooks of Rita K
In March 2005 I visited the Robert Kroetsch Fonds in the University \nof Calgary Special Collections. This consists of almost twenty linear \nmeters of material, including letters to Kroetsch from writers, publishers \nand academics, letters to and from family members, multiple drafts of \nhis major works and unpublished works, print-outs of e-mails he sent \nand received, plane and train ticket receipts, conference outlines and \ndrafts of paper…
Shakespeare Survey: Volume 12, Elizabethan Theatre
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of the previous year's textual and critical studies and of major British performances. The books are illustrated with a variety…
The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature
In the sixteenth century the modern meaning of courtship - 'wooing someone' - developed from an older sense - 'being at court'. The Rhetoric of Courtship takes this semantic shift as the starting point for an incisive account of the practice and meanings of courtship at the court of Elizabeth I, where 'being at court' pre-eminently came to mean the same as 'wooing' the Queen. Exploring the wider context of social anthropology, philology, cultural…
Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of the previous year's textual and critical studies and of major British performances. The books are illustrated with a variety…
Weaving and Writing in Othello
Iago tells tales, tall tales. He fabricates a story – Desdemona’s adulterous liaison with Cassio – and then relies upon his own ingenuity and the propensity of those around him to be persuaded by the internal logic of his comedic narrative: ‘the knave is handsome, young, and hath all those requisites in him that folly and green minds look after; a pestilent complete knave, and the woman hath found him already’ (2.1.245–7). His few, well-placed in…
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600
This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the tumult of Catholic and Protestant alliances during the Reformation, the age of printing and of New World discovery. In this century courtly literature under Henry VIII moves toward a new, more personal poetry of sentiment, narrative and romance. The development of English prose is s…
Human pigmentation genes: Identification, structure and consequences of polymorphic variation
The synthesis of the visible pigment melanin by the melanocyte cell is the basis of the human pigmentary system, those genes directing the formation, transport and distribution of the specialised melanosome organelle in which melanin accumulates can legitimately be called pigmentation genes. The genes involved in this process have been identified through comparative genomic studies of mouse coat colour mutations and by the molecular characterisat…
Messing with the Archive: Back Doors, Rubbish and Traces in Robert Kroetsch's The Hornbooks of Rita K
In March 2005 I visited the Robert Kroetsch Fonds in the University \nof Calgary Special Collections. This consists of almost twenty linear \nmeters of material, including letters to Kroetsch from writers, publishers \nand academics, letters to and from family members, multiple drafts of \nhis major works and unpublished works, print-outs of e-mails he sent \nand received, plane and train ticket receipts, conference outlines and \ndrafts of paper…
Messing with the Archive: Back Doors, Rubbish and Traces in Robert Kroetsch'sThe Hornbooks of Rita K
Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature
The Cambridge companion to the epic
"Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form of mock-epic. This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry from the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh to Derek Walcott's postcolonial Omeros. The list of epic poets analysed here includes some of the greatest writers in literary history…
The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Masculinity And The Hunt Wyatt To Spenser
Gascoigne's Prick
This chapter begins with Gascoigne’s most famous poem, “Woodmanship”, in which a lifetime of misdirected actions comes to be embodied by the metaphor of shooting “awry”. In a culture where hitting the mark emblematised the exercise of moderation and virtue, shooting awry signifies a mode of masculinity at distinct variance from the culturally approved norm. The chapter goes on to show how this figure of the bad woodman is the general type that li…
Masculinity, Gender, and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric
Bates, Catherine. Masculinity, Gender, and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 35, Number 2, Spring 2012, pp. 5-187), on Érudit
Sustainable urban foragings in the Canadian metropolis: Rummaging through Rita Wong's Forage and Nicholas Dickner's Nikolski
Sustainable urban foragings Foraging and ‘dumpster diving’ are activities associated with a kind of environmentally conscious social activism engaged in by those wanting to live sustainably by maintaining a close connection with the local. The former is generally associated with nature, the latter with the urban environment. Wong's poetry collection, Forage, and Dickner's novel, Nikolski, both feature those who scavenge within their urban environ…
Mediatrix: Women, Politics, and Literary Production in Early Modern England
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Poetry Is Useful
One of the ways the Defence seeks to answer the charge of abuse is by arguing, conversely, that poetry is fruitful, useful, and forceful. This section unpacks and deconstructs these three denials in turn. In Menenius Agrippa’s famous tale of the body, food inside the belly equates to the allegorical kernel inside the narrative shell, showing how the ideology of ‘fullness’ or presence is deployed in the interests of the wealthy at the expense of t…
The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, Volume 1: Prose
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Deixis in the Early Modern English Lyric: Unsettling Spatial Anchors Like “Here,” “This,” “Come.”
Deixis in the Early Modern English Lyric: Unsettling Spatial Anchors Like “Here,” “This,” “Come.” Heather Dubrow. Palgrave Pivot. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. x + 136 pp. $67.50. - Volume 70 Issue 1
A Companion to Renaissance Poetry
Covering the period 1520–1680, A Companion to Renaissance Poetry offers 46 essays which present an in-depth account of the context, production, and interpretation of early modern British poetry. It provides students with a deep appreciation for, and sensitivity toward, the ways in which poets of the period understood and fashioned a distinctly vernacular voice, while engaging them with some of the debates and departures that are currently animati…
Companion to Renaissance Poetry
Futile Pleasures: Early Modern Literature and the Limits of Utility
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of Poesy
Sidney's Defence of Poesy'- the foundational text of English poetics - is generally taken to present a model of poetry as ideal: the poet depicts ideals of human conduct and readers are inspired to imitate them. Catherine Bates sets out to challenge this received view. Attending very closely to Sidney's text, she identifies within it a model of poetry that is markedly at variance from the one presumed, and shows Sidney's text to be feeling its wa…
The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture: From Mary Sidney to Aphra Behn
The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture: From Mary Sidney to Aphra Behn. Gary Waller. Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 288 pp. €105. - Volume 75 Issue 1
Ripples of Becoming-With: Co-creating a Postdisciplinary Module About Posthumanism
This article provides a diffractive reading of the second-year undergraduate university module on posthumanism that I teach. The module is designed specifically for mature students. I consider the “postdisciplinary” nature of the module, and think through the ways in which the module “becomes” through co-creation with the students. This involves a discussion of Braidotti’s (2019) notion of the posthuman university, Lykke’s (2018) conception of th…
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