Interpretation at Court
Courtesy and the Performer-Audience Dialectic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4939602 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frank Whigham (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 623 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/468704 |
| OpenAlex | W2313477840 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
rT _HE RENAISSANCE was a period of programmatic change in Western social codes. Widespread social mobility began to call into question the received ascriptive verities of birth and worth (attributes theoretically inaccessible to personal effort) and to make possible new codes and stratifications based on merit and behavior. This new philosophy eventually called all in doubt, but its fundamental assumption, that the social world is a human construct, penetrated only gradually. The upsurge began at the court, the original arena of opportunity and change, and progressed like Spenser's Calidore and his Blatant Beast from court to city to country and the enclosed fields of pastoral. But the court always retained its transcendental centrality: the new psychological and demographic pressures were relentlessly centripetal, and the court became a vortex of social turbulence. In this dense and obscure space the courtier was the essential actor, and his scripted character-eager, stealthy, voyeuristic, vain-provides an index to the shift from traditional to modern conceptions of social ontology. Michel Foucault has argued that there are manifold relations of power which permeate, characterise and constitute the social body, and these relations of power cannot themselves be established, consolidated nor implemented without the production, accumulation, circulation and functioning of a discourse.1 I believe that the texts of
Aesthetics · Art · Courtesy · Dialectic · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Literature · Performing arts · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2012 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |