Benedict S Robinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3869297 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benedict S Robinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benedict S |
| FAMILY NAME | Robinson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBINSON B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Critical Response II
The True Story of Fictionality
Sense and Sententiae
This essay aims to rethink a rhetorical microgenre: the “sentence” or sententia, a brief maxim usually stating a moral principle. My aim is to show that rhetorical sentences entail more flexible cognitive and interpretive acts than has usually been recognized. I read the theory and practice of the sentence alongside that of legal maxims, arguing that these small forms can cast a useful light on each other. I focus in particular on literary charac…
Green Seraglios
This article reads seventeenth-century texts about the tulip for what they have to say about an expanding global market and the new forms of cultivation and cultural competency linked to that market. A recent import from Turkey, even the tulip's name identified it as a stranger: the word derives from—and in early modern orthography is sometimes identical with—the word "turban," entering European languages as a deformation of the Persian root dulb…
Shakespeare and the Hunt
Edward Berry. Shakespeare and the Hunt: A Cultural and Social Study. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 253 pp. index, illus. $59.95. ISBN: 0-521-80070-6. - Volume 56 Issue 2
Shakespeare and the Hunt
Edward Berry. Shakespeare and the Hunt: A Cultural and Social Study. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 253 pp. index, illus. $59.95. ISBN: 0-521-80070-6. - Volume 56 Issue 2
Green Seraglios
This article reads seventeenth-century texts about the tulip for what they have to say about an expanding global market and the new forms of cultivation and cultural competency linked to that market. A recent import from Turkey, even the tulip's name identified it as a stranger: the word derives from—and in early modern orthography is sometimes identical with—the word "turban," entering European languages as a deformation of the Persian root dulb…
Sense and Sententiae
This essay aims to rethink a rhetorical microgenre: the “sentence” or sententia, a brief maxim usually stating a moral principle. My aim is to show that rhetorical sentences entail more flexible cognitive and interpretive acts than has usually been recognized. I read the theory and practice of the sentence alongside that of legal maxims, arguing that these small forms can cast a useful light on each other. I focus in particular on literary charac…
Critical Response II
The True Story of Fictionality
History (5 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Narrative Theory and Analysis (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Berry (1 work) · Biology (1 work)