Background
Kinney, Arthur Frederick was born on September 5, 1933 in Cortland, New York, United States. Son of Arthur F. and Gladys (Mudge) Kinney.
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John Skelton, Priest As Poet: Seasons of Discovery
(Kinney shows how the Mass, the Divine Offices, and the li...)
Kinney shows how the Mass, the Divine Offices, and the liturgy underlie the themes and image clusters of Skelton's poems and argues that liturgical music, especially the plainsong, informs all of Skelton's meters. What emerges is the portrait of a consistent, determined, and imaginative poet in whose canon poetics is grounded in the marriage of teaching and preaching. The study sheds new light on the interrelationships of politics, poetry, and religion in Renaissance England. Originally published in 1987. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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Shakespeare and Cognition: Aristotle's Legacy and Shakespearean Drama
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Shakespeare and Cognition examines the essential relationship between vision, knowledge, and memory in Renaissance models of cognition as seen in Shakespeare's plays. Drawing on both Aristotle's Metaphysics and contemporary cognitive literary theory, Arthur F. Kinney explores five key objects/images in Shakespeare's plays – crowns, bells, rings, graves and ghosts – that are not actually seen (or, in the case of the latter, not meant to be seen), but are central to the imagination of both the playwright and the playgoers.
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Lies Like Truth: Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural Moment
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What was it like to be in the audience of the Globe Theater in 1606? By demonstrating fundamental connections between audience reaction then and the use of computers today, Renaissance scholar Arthur Kinney explores the cultural moment of one of Shakespeare's most popular tragedies. Examining the cultural practices and beliefs that influenced Shakespeare's writing of Macbeth, Kinney reconstructs how playgoers in 1606 understood that drama when it was first presented and shows how many congruent and often conflicting perspectives played on their minds. Calling on hundreds of documents with which Shakespeare might have been familiar, he records a wide range of cultural practices related to nearly every aspect of society in that day. Kinney proposes a new way of reading this period's texts, drawing us closer to the way dramatic plays such as Macbeth were understood from early modern times to beyond today's technological revolution. In the course of this inquiry, he seeks to determine whether the 1623 text of Macbeth that we now have is anything like the original 1606 performance. Lies Like Truth shows that the computer revolution of our time can help us revisit Shakespeare's works in their own time and thereby enhance our understanding of them. This provocative work unlocks a cultural moment frozen in time and broadens our appreciation of Shakespeare.
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Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments (Blackwell Anthologies)
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This pioneering collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama covers the full sweep of dramatic performances in the England Shakespeare knew. Newly edited from manuscript and quarto, all the major playwrights are here - Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton, Webster - as well as new dramatic scripts and plays published for the first time.
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Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments (Blackwell Anthologies) 1st edition by Kinney, Arthur F. (2000) Paperback
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Humanist Poetics: Thought, Rhetoric, and Fiction in Sixteenth-Century England
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This important contribution to the study of English Renaissance culture redefines the humanist movement, employs humanist rhetoric in new ways, and argues that English fiction in the sixteenth century should be seen as a major genre with its own strategies for the imaginative artist. Arthur F. Kinney argues that the main purpose of Renaissance humanism was the cultivation and perfection of the individual and society by the use of rhetoric―by persuasion. Humanist poetics, then, is the poetics of rhetoric: the attempt to fashion the self or the reader by a fiction that employs rhetoric's means. By tracing classical resources and the intertextuality of major English works from More's Utopia to Lodge's Rosalynde and Nashe's Unfortunate Traveller, Kinney not only locates basic Elizabethan habits of mind but also shows where the roots of the English novel may ultimately lie.
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(Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars: New Gallery of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue Literature) Author: Arthur F. Kinney published on (October, 1990)
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Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments (Blackwell Anthologies) by Arthur F. Kinney (20-Nov-1999) Paperback
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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500-1600
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Lies Like Truth: Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural Moment by Kinney, Arthur F. (2001) Hardcover
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Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments (Blackwell Anthologies) by Arthur F. Kinney (Editor) (3-Dec-2004) Paperback
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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500-1600 (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Arthur F. Kinney (Editor) (2-Dec-1999) Paperback
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(John Skelton, Priest as Poet: Seasons of Discovery) Author: Arthur F. Kinney published on (January, 2011)
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(Shakespeare and Cognition) Author: Arthur F. Kinney published on (August, 2006)
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Arthur Frederick Kinney
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Arthur Frederick Kinney, American Literary history educator, author, editors With Army of the United States, 1956-1958. Member Modern Language Association (president county of editors of learned journals 1971-1973, 81-83), Shakespeare Association American (trustee since 1995), Renaissance Society American (county member), Renaissance English Text Society (president since 1985), Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference.
Education
Bachelor magna cum laude, Syracuse University, 1955; Master of Science, Columbia University, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, 1963.
Career
Instructor, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1963-1966;
assistant professor, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1966-1969;
associate professor, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1969-1973;
professor, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1973-1985;
Copeland Professor, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, since 1985. Adjunct Professor Clark University, since 1973, New York University, since 1992. Director Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, Amherst.
Speaker in field.
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Humanist Poetics: Thought, Rhetoric, and Fiction in Sixteenth-Century England
(This important contribution to the study of English Renai...)
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Lies Like Truth: Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural Moment
( What was it like to be in the audience of the Globe The...)
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John Skelton, Priest As Poet: Seasons of Discovery
(Kinney shows how the Mass, the Divine Offices, and the li...)
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Shakespeare and Cognition: Aristotle's Legacy and Shakespearean Drama
(Shakespeare and Cognition examines the essential relation...)
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Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments (Blackwell Anthologies)
(This pioneering collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissan...)
- Dorothy Parker Revisited (Twayne's United States Authors Series)
- Continental Humanist Poetics: Studies in Erasmus, Castiglione, Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais and Cervantes by Arthur F. Kinney (1989-09-30)
- Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments (Blackwell Anthologies) 1st edition by Kinney, Arthur F. (2000) Paperback
- (Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars: New Gallery of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue Literature) Author: Arthur F. Kinney published on (October, 1990)
- Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments (Blackwell Anthologies) by Arthur F. Kinney (20-Nov-1999) Paperback
- The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500-1600
- Lies Like Truth: Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural Moment by Kinney, Arthur F. (2001) Hardcover
- Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments (Blackwell Anthologies) by Arthur F. Kinney (Editor) (3-Dec-2004) Paperback
- The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500-1600 (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Arthur F. Kinney (Editor) (2-Dec-1999) Paperback
- (John Skelton, Priest as Poet: Seasons of Discovery) Author: Arthur F. Kinney published on (January, 2011)
- (Shakespeare and Cognition) Author: Arthur F. Kinney published on (August, 2006)
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Humanist Poetics: Thought, Rhetoric, and Fiction in Sixteenth-Century England
Membership
With Army of the United States, 1956-1958. Member Modern Language Association (president council of editors of learned journals 1971-1973, 81-83), Shakespeare Association American (trustee 1995-1997), Renaissance Society of America (council member), Renaissance English Text Society (president since 1985, Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement award 2006, Folger Institute executive committee, since 1990, Jean Robertson Lifetime Achievement award, 2010), 16th-Century Studies Conference Assn, International Sidney Society (past president).
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1963
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1963 - 1966
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1966 - 1969
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Recipient Distinguished Teaching award University Massachusetts, 1990, Chancellor's medal, 1985, University Research fellowship, 1976. Named Fulbright fellow, Christ Church, Oxford University, 1977-1978, Senior Huntington Library. fellow, 1973-1974, 78, 83, Senior National Endowment of the Humanities fellow, 1973-1974, 87-88, 2003-2006, Senior Folger Shakespeare Library. fellow, 1974, 90, 92.Recipient Distinguished Teaching award University Massachusetts, 1990, Chancellor's medal, 1985, University Research fellowship, 1976. Named Fulbright fellow, Christ Church, Oxford University, 1977-1978, Senior Huntington Library. fellow, 1973-1974, 78, 83, Senior National Endowment of the Humanities fellow, 1973-1974, 87-88, 2003-2006, Senior Folger Shakespeare Library. fellow, 1974, 90, 92.