New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

New Historicism and Renaissance Drama PDF Author: Richard Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315504448
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
New Historicism has been one of the major developments in literary theory over the last decade, both in the USA and Europe. In this book, Wilson and Dutton examine the theories behind New Historicism and its celebrated impact in practice on Renaissance Drama, providing an important collection both for students of the genre and of literary theory.

New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

New Historicism and Renaissance Drama PDF Author: Richard Wilson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780582045545
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
New Historicism has been one of the major developments in literary theory over the last decade, both in the USA and Europe. In this book, Wilson and Dutton examine the theories behind New Historicism and its celebrated impact in practice on Renaissance Drama, providing an important collection both for students of the genre and of literary theory.

Shakespeare Survey: Volume 58, Writing about Shakespeare

Shakespeare Survey: Volume 58, Writing about Shakespeare PDF Author: Peter Holland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521850742
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 396

Book Description
Published with academic researchers and graduate students in mind, this volume of the 'Shakespeare Survey' presents a number of contributions on the theme of the play 'Macbeth'.

The Power of Forms in the English Renaissance

The Power of Forms in the English Renaissance PDF Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher: Pilgrim Books (OK)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description


Shakespearean Negotiations

Shakespearean Negotiations PDF Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520061606
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Stephen Greenblatt has been at the center of a major shift in literary interpretation toward a critical method that situates cultural creation in history. Shakespearean Negotiations is a sustained and powerful exemplification of this innovative method, offering a new way of understanding the power of Shakespeare's achievement and, beyond this, an original analysis of cultural process.

Italian Culture in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Italian Culture in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries PDF Author: Michele Marrapodi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351925849
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 491

Book Description
Applying recent developments in new historicism and cultural materialism - along with the new perspectives opened up by the current debate on intertextuality and the construction of the theatrical text - the essays collected here reconsider the pervasive influence of Italian culture, literature, and traditions on early modern English drama. The volume focuses strongly on Shakespeare but also includes contributions on Marston, Middleton, Ford, Brome, Aretino, and other early modern dramatists. The pervasive influence of Italian culture, literature, and traditions on the European Renaissance, it is argued here, offers a valuable opportunity to study the intertextual dynamics that contributed to the construction of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatrical canon. In the specific area of theatrical discourse, the drama of the early modern period is characterized by the systematic appropriation of a complex Italian iconology, exploited both as the origin of poetry and art and as the site of intrigue, vice, and political corruption. Focusing on the construction and the political implications of the dramatic text, this collection analyses early modern English drama within the context of three categories of cultural and ideological appropriation: the rewriting, remaking, and refashioning of the English theatrical tradition in its iconic, thematic, historical, and literary aspects.

The New Historicism

The New Historicism PDF Author: Harold Veeser
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317761200
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Following Clifford Geertz and other cultural anthropologists, the New Historicist critics have evolved a method for describing culture in action. Their "thick descriptions" seize upon an event or anecdote--colonist John Rolfe's conversation with Pocohontas's father, a note found among Nietzsche's papers to the effect that "I have lost my umbrella"--and re-read it to reveal through the analysis of tiny particulars the motive forces controlling a whole society. Contributors: Stephen J. Greenblatt, Louis A. Montrose, Catherine Gallagher, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Gerald Graff, Jean Franco, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Frank Lentricchia, Vincent Pecora, Jane Marcus, Jon Klancher, Jonathan Arac, Hayden White, Stanley Fish, Judith Newton, Joel Fineman, John Schaffer, Richard Terdiman, Donald Pease, Brooks Thomas.

Reader's Guide to Literature in English

Reader's Guide to Literature in English PDF Author: Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781884964206
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1024

Book Description
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The New Historicism

The New Historicism PDF Author: Brook Thomas
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691015071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
Brook Thomas explores the new historicism and the challenges posed to it by a postmodern world that questions the very possibility of newness. He considers new historicism's engagement with poststructuralism and locates the former within a tradition of pragmatic historiography in the United States.

A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture

A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture PDF Author: Michael Hattaway
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470998725
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 792

Book Description
This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference. Provides new perspectives on established texts. Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions. Pioneered by leading scholars. Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies. Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.