Download or read book English Renaissance Literature and Contemporary Theory written by Paul Cefalu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first sustained assessment of the ways in which recent contemporary philosophy and cultural theory - including the work of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Eric Santner, Slavoj Zizek, and Alenka Zupancic - can illuminate Early Modern literature and culture.