András Kiséry
Biographic Data
| ID | 387186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | András Kiséry |
| GIVEN NAMES | András |
| FAMILY NAME | Kiséry |
| SIGNATURE | KISÉRY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | City College of New York |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-4457-0784 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Useless Books
The catalog is a technology that mediates access to books and also mediates its users' cultural categories. In a 1657 catalog, the bookseller William London effectively created a category for what we now call literature a century earlier than the familiar histories suggest this was conceivable. This essay explains this seeming oddity, while also proposing an alternative to the story, advanced by scholars from René Wellek through Raymond Williams …
Speech, Media, and Early Modern English Writing
Hamlet’s Moment
Hamlet’s Moment reveals how plays written in the first decade of the seventeenth century were shaped by forms of professional political knowledge and the social promises such knowledge held. This argument presupposes that there was such a thing as a political profession, however loosely understood: that there was a career path associated with political employment that was assumed to be a means to social advancement, and that there was a recogniza…
Hamlet's Moment
'Hamlet's Moment' reveals how plays written in the first decade of the 17th century were shaped by forms of professional political knowledge and by the social promises such knowledge held, and they familiarised their audiences with them.
‘The Most Matter with Best Conceyt’
Sejanus presents itself as a piece of authoritative Tacitean historiography, and its maxims are part of the play’s effort to align itself with the ‘politic’ histories of Tacitus, Commines, and Guicciardini, valued for the aphoristic materials that could be extracted from their texts. Jonson’s tragedy puts such materials of political analysis into public, commercial circulation, but suggests that the unmasking of power through such analysis is inc…
Formal Matters
Formal matters
The essays in this collection explore the intersection between literary and material forms of writing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England by linking formalist analysis with the insights of book history
The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume 1
Joad Raymond, ed. The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume 1: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xxix +672 pp. $180. ISBN: 9780–19–928704–8. - Volume 65 Issue 1
Renaissance Transformations
Margaret Healy and Thomas Healy, eds. Renaissance Transformations: The Making of English Writing 1500–1650. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. vi + 218 pp. index. $95. ISBN: 978–0–7486–3873–4. - Volume 63 Issue 4
Renaissance Transformations
Margaret Healy and Thomas Healy, eds. Renaissance Transformations: The Making of English Writing 1500–1650. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. vi + 218 pp. index. $95. ISBN: 978–0–7486–3873–4. - Volume 63 Issue 4
The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume 1
Joad Raymond, ed. The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume 1: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xxix +672 pp. $180. ISBN: 9780–19–928704–8. - Volume 65 Issue 1
Formal matters
The essays in this collection explore the intersection between literary and material forms of writing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England by linking formalist analysis with the insights of book history
Hamlet’s Moment
Hamlet’s Moment reveals how plays written in the first decade of the seventeenth century were shaped by forms of professional political knowledge and the social promises such knowledge held. This argument presupposes that there was such a thing as a political profession, however loosely understood: that there was a career path associated with political employment that was assumed to be a means to social advancement, and that there was a recogniza…
Hamlet's Moment
'Hamlet's Moment' reveals how plays written in the first decade of the 17th century were shaped by forms of professional political knowledge and by the social promises such knowledge held, and they familiarised their audiences with them.
‘The Most Matter with Best Conceyt’
Sejanus presents itself as a piece of authoritative Tacitean historiography, and its maxims are part of the play’s effort to align itself with the ‘politic’ histories of Tacitus, Commines, and Guicciardini, valued for the aphoristic materials that could be extracted from their texts. Jonson’s tragedy puts such materials of political analysis into public, commercial circulation, but suggests that the unmasking of power through such analysis is inc…
Formal Matters
Speech, Media, and Early Modern English Writing
Useless Books
The catalog is a technology that mediates access to books and also mediates its users' cultural categories. In a 1657 catalog, the bookseller William London effectively created a category for what we now call literature a century earlier than the familiar histories suggest this was conceivable. This essay explains this seeming oddity, while also proposing an alternative to the story, advanced by scholars from René Wellek through Raymond Williams …
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · History and criticism (3 works) · 1500-1700 (2 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)