{"product_id":"vagrant-writing-barry-taylor-9781487582524","title":"Vagrant Writing: Social and Semiotic Disorders in the English Renaissance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVagrant Writing\u003c\/em\u003e addresses the semiotic dimension of social change in Renaissance England. From tracta against cosmetics to the Jonsonian masque, from coney-catching pamphlets to the theology of Hooker, Barry Taylor explores what happens to Tudor and Jacobean practices of writing when the ideology of the Word which underpins them -- an ideology of fixed, metaphysically anchored meaning -- must interpret, regulate and contain a social order undergoing radical transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe semiotic power of social disorder, the social power of a disorderly semiotics: it is at that intersection of disruptive forces that Vagrant Writing establishes its enquiry. Embracing such topics as the relationship of writing, usury and Narcissism, the links between literary translation and the regulation of female sexuality, the fragmentation of writerly authority and subjectivity in the literary marketplace, and the politics of allegorical interpretation, the book offers a series of connected readings which is at once closely detailed and ambitiously extensive in scope. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn its own trespassings beyond the confines of the literary canon and across disciplinary boundaries, Vagrant Writing opens up new directions within the field of English Renaissance writing. In doing so, it makes available fresh perspectives on the relationship between social and discursive domains, and on the paradoxical, self-disputing energies of the Renaissance text. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barry Taylor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487582528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487582524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.58d","brand":"Barry Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48088389288191,"sku":"9781487582524","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9c84ceae-ec3f-4808-87b4-97c4900e99de.jpg?v=1769104561","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/vagrant-writing-barry-taylor-9781487582524","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}