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"some of th e most foundational works of the English canon are more indebted to a preindustrial textile tradition than we hvae acknowledged" (1) | |||
"Indeed, it would seem that weavers and writers had been inspiring one another in England, as they were in other European countries, for centures." (1) | |||
"my focus is the way that texts could be, and were, read like tapestries." (2) | |||
"Although long descriptions of wall hangings are common in medieval literature, with a few notable exceptions they seem to have fallen out of favor during the sixteenth century. Yet if sustained descriptions of tapestries are somwhat rare in Elizabethan literature and drama, tapestries are not." (3) | |||
blank tapestries, undescribed tapestries == "helps us to think about what the materiality of an arras hanging -- indepdnent of its figures surface -- contributes to a literary or dramatic scene" (3) | |||
"In the work of William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser in particular the arras hanging often functions as a 'blank' or unfixed screen that invites readers and playgoers to project something highly idiosyncratci onto the text. They might, for example, imagine arras hangings they had seen in life, and in this way weave their own experiences into the fiction." (3) | |||
Revision as of 16:06, 15 May 2016
Olson, Rebecca. Arras Hanging: The Textile that Determined Early Modern Literature and Drama. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2013.
Introduction: Hiding in Plain Sight
"some of th e most foundational works of the English canon are more indebted to a preindustrial textile tradition than we hvae acknowledged" (1)
"Indeed, it would seem that weavers and writers had been inspiring one another in England, as they were in other European countries, for centures." (1)
"my focus is the way that texts could be, and were, read like tapestries." (2)
"Although long descriptions of wall hangings are common in medieval literature, with a few notable exceptions they seem to have fallen out of favor during the sixteenth century. Yet if sustained descriptions of tapestries are somwhat rare in Elizabethan literature and drama, tapestries are not." (3)
blank tapestries, undescribed tapestries == "helps us to think about what the materiality of an arras hanging -- indepdnent of its figures surface -- contributes to a literary or dramatic scene" (3)
"In the work of William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser in particular the arras hanging often functions as a 'blank' or unfixed screen that invites readers and playgoers to project something highly idiosyncratci onto the text. They might, for example, imagine arras hangings they had seen in life, and in this way weave their own experiences into the fiction." (3)