Introduction Re-Citing "Epitaph" and "Genre" in Early Modern England
Introduction Re-Citing "Epitaph" and "Genre" in Early Modern England
Introduction Re-Citing "Epitaph" and "Genre" in Early Modern England
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2 The original phrase comes from (it long since goes without saying)
Greenblatt’s Shakespearean Negotiations (1); since troped by, among others,
Aebischer (64); and Masten (1). For critiques of this formulation, see Cope
(53–54); Joughin (77); Pieters (2); and Halpern, who hears in it echoes of T. S. Eliot
(43). Gumbrecht recalls Greenblatt when he asserts: “The object of this desire
lying under all historically specific historical cultures would be the presentifica-
tion of the past, that is, the possibility of ‘speaking’ to the dead” (123).