RT Journal Article
T1 "Before Words" : seeing and Privacy in Renaissance Poetry
A1 Casanova García, Jorge
AB At the very start of his book Ways of Seeing, the art critic John Berger says: “Seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the world.” This paper will explore ways of being in the world through different ways of seeing portrayed in the texts of three English Renaissance poets: Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser and Mary Wroth. In those texts in which seeing, though a threat to an order, leads to a positive vision of the private, there is an unavoidable depiction of the physical and its transgression, its violation; but when the text presents a condition rather than a physical space, when seeing rather than as transgression is defined as an aspiration, then the physical, in dilution, gives place to more discursive conceptions of the private.
PB Sociedad Hispano-Portuguesa de Estudios Renacentistas Ingleses
SN 1135-7789
YR 2002
FD 2002
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/13763
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/13763
LA eng
NO Casanova García, J.: ""Before Words" : seeing and Privacy in Renaissance Poetry". SEDERI. Yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies. Nº 12, págs. 143-150, (2002). ISSN 1135-7789
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026