VOLUME FIVE (2012): ARTEFACTS

APPOSITIONS:

Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern

Literature & Culture,

http://appositions.blogspot.com/,

ISSN: 1946-1992

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ARTICLES:

Sarah Joyce Bunker

University of Rochester

“We must see you laid”: Domestic Utopianism & the Marriage Bed in The Maid’s Tragedy, Cymbeline, and The Revenger’s Tragedy

David V. Urban

Calvin College

Surprised by Richardson: C. S. Lewis, Jonathan Richardson, and Their Comparative Influence on Stanley Fish’s Surprised by Sin: The Reader in “Paradise Lost”

REVIEWS:

David H. Cormier

St. Louis University

Review: Erin Minear, Reverberating Song in Shakespeare and Milton: Language, Memory, and Musical Representation.  Ashgate (Surrey, UK and Burlington, USA, 2011), 296 pp.  ISBN: 978-1-4094-3545-7.  $104.95 (USD).

Jane M. Kinney

Valdosta State University

Review: Chloe Wheatley, Epic, Epitome, and the Early Modern Historical Imagination.  Ashgate (Surrey, UK and Burlington, USA, 2011), 148 pp.  ISBN: 978-0-7546-6976-0.  $99.95 (USD).

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From the Oxford English Dictionary:

ARTEFACT / ARTIFACT, n. and adj.

1a. An object made or modified by human workmanship, as opposed to one formed by natural processes.

1644. K. Digby, Two treatises, ii. viii. 411. “If we reflect vpon the workes and artes of men, as, a good life, a commonwealth, an army, a house, a garden, all artefactes; what are they, but compositions of well ordered partes?” (Kenelm Digby, Two treatises: In the one of which, the nature of bodies; in the other, the nature of mans soule; is looked into: in way of discovery, of the immortality of reasonable soules. Paris, 1644. First edition. 1 Vol. Wing D1448).

1b. An excavated object that shows characteristic signs of human workmanship or use.

1c. In fantasy role-playing games, computer games, etc.: an object which may be found or collected by a player, typically conferring an advantage in the game.

2. A spurious result, effect, or finding in a scientific experiment or investigation, esp. one created by the experimental technique or procedure itself. Also as a mass noun: such effects collectively.

3a. A non-material human construct.

3b. That is made or modified by human workmanship. Also: that is a result of human intervention. rare.
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APPOSITIONS:

Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern

Literature & Culture,

http://appositions.blogspot.com/,

ISSN: 1946-1992

VOLUME FIVE (2012): ARTEFACTS