Wednesday, July 11, 2012

VOLUME FIVE (2012): ARTEFACTS


APPOSITIONS:
Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern
Literature & Culture,
ISSN: 1946-1992

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VOLUME FIVE (2012):
ARTEFACTS

ARTICLES:

Sarah Joyce Bunker
University of Rochester

David V. Urban
Calvin College

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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VOLUME FIVE (2012):
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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,
ISSN: 1946-1992
VOLUME FIVE (2012): ARTEFACTS

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