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  • The Left Hand of God: Despair in Medieval and Renaissance Tradition
  • Susan Snyder
  • Journal: Studies in the Renaissance / Volume 12 / 1965
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2019, pp. 18-59
  • Print publication: 1965
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    A man of hell, that cals himselfe Despaire

    (Faerie Queene, I, ix, 28)

    Penser's moving description of the Redcrosse Knight's encounter with Despaire in Book One of The Faerie Queene is the culmination of a long and rich movement of thought and imagery. Here, as so often in his great Renaissance epic, Spenser looks back to the middle ages, drawing on a still-vital tradition to present the ugly, sinister figure with its knives and ropes and its soulpiercing arguments.

    In spite of the tides of secularism, despair in its theological sense—loss of hope of salvation—figures significantly in Renaissance literature. Examining England alone, one notes its place in the traditional morality play pattern as the turning point of the hero's downward movement: Skelton's Magnyfycence is a prominent example. Despair episodes have a somewhat similar place in the prodigal son dramas which were popular during the middle decades of the sixteenth century, such plays as Lusty Juventus, Misogonus, and Nice Wanton.

  • Guilty Sisters: Marguerite de Navarre, Elizabeth of England, and the Miroir de l'âme pécheresse
  • Susan Snyder
  • Journal: Renaissance Quarterly / Volume 50 / Issue 2 / Summer 1997
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018, pp. 443-458
  • Print publication: Summer 1997
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    Le Miroir de l'âme pécheresse, a volume of devotional verse named for its principal poem, was published in Alençon in 1531 and in Paris two years later. The Paris edition identifies its author as “Marguerite de France, Soeur Vnicque du Roy,” and later as “Royne de Navarre.” Some eleven years later, the daughter of Henry VIII translated the Miroir as a gift for her latest stepmother, Queen Katherine Parr. The poem has thus a doubly unusual status. In an age when literature was overwhelmingly male in its origins, the agencies of genesis and transmission for this work were female. And in an age when most writers came from the middle class, the agents of its production and reproduction were of high birth, members of royal families.

  • Guyon the Wrestler
  • Susan Snyder
  • Journal: Renaissance News / Volume 14 / Issue 4 / Winter 1961
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018, pp. 249-252
  • Print publication: Winter 1961
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    Mr. A. D. S. Fowler's article in Modern Language Notes, of April 1960, ‘The River Guyon’, makes the interesting suggestion that the name of Guyon, Spenser's Knight of Temperance in Book Two of The Faerie Queene, may be derived from Gihon, one of the four rivers of Paradise mentioned in Genesis 2:13. Mr. Fowler cites the commentaries of Philo and Ambrose, which allegorize the rivers as the four cardinal virtues, to prove a definite relationship between Gihon, later written Geon or Gyon, and the virtue of temperance. Other authorities for this equation can be added: Bede's Commentary on the Pentateuch, the Glossa Ordinaria, and Alexander Neckham's De naturis rerum. It seems very likely that Spenser meant the name of Guyon to recall this traditional association.

  • A Novel Microwave Device Designed to Preserve Cell Structure in Milliseconds
  • Gary R. Login, Susan Kissell, Barbara K. Dwyer, Ann M. Dvorak
  • Journal: MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive / Volume 189 / 1990
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2011, 329
  • Print publication: 1990
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    We describe an innovative microwave instrument, designed in collaboration with and owned by Raytheon Company. The instrument permits the manipulation of biological specimens in their fluid milieu during the actual period of rapid tissue fixation. The specimen chamber is designed for sample containers up to 1.7 cm in diameter and 4.5 cm in height. Reflected power is reproducibly low, limiting the need for pretuning the microwave output to the sample. Microwave exposure can be controlled in 1 msecond increments with a range of 10 mseconds to 10 seconds. Mammalian cells and tissues fixed by this microwave device were evaluated by light and electron microscopy. Preliminary findings show large regions of excellent preservation in tissues and in cell suspensions in -100 mseconds.

The Winter's Tale
  • The Winter's Tale
  • William Shakespeare
  • Edited by Susan Snyder, Deborah T. Curren-Aquino
  • Published online: 16 August 2019
  • Print publication: 08 March 2007
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    The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems and an extensive introduction.The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's most varied, theatrically self-conscious, and emotionally wide-ranging plays. Much of the play's copiousness inheres in its generic intermingling of tragedy, comedy, romance, pastoral, and the history play. In addition to dates and sources, the introduction attends to iterative patterns, the nature and cause of Leontes' jealousy, the staging and meaning of the bear episode, and the thematic and structural implications of the figure of Time. Special attention is paid to the ending and its tempered happiness. Performance history is integrated throughout the introduction and commentary. Appendices include the theatrical practice of doubling.

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