As a scholar whose memory reaches back into the archaic, I would note that
my first interventions were a call for rigorous scholarship in Renaissance
studies and the rediscovery of the forgotten but exceedingly seductive
texts of the late sixteenth century with which Spenser's poetry
passionately interacts: rhetoric, music, tablature, translations of Virgil,
Theocritus, Horace, Ovid, the facsinating Euphuistic thinking and rhapsodic
writing of Barnfield, Dickenson, Constable, Lynch, Campion, not to mention
the somewhat better known but still forgotten. This writing is yes,
theoretical, in ways intriguingly similar to those of linguistic
psychoanalysis but nore complex and nuanced, and yes, it has much to do
with twinning (witness the recurrence of the Castor and Pollux myth in
Renaissance pastoral and rhetoric, often in relation to the pre-Socratic
poet Simonides, the symmetrical, and the similaic).
now you know.
Dr. Shirley Sharon-Zisser
Tel Aviv University
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