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Author: Hugh Grady Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009098098 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 259
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Shakespeare was fascinated by power throughout his career but also understood its dangers and limits. Utopian visions were his solution.
Author: Hugh Grady Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009098098 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 259
Book Description
Shakespeare was fascinated by power throughout his career but also understood its dangers and limits. Utopian visions were his solution.
Author: Lee A. Jacobus Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9780312080631 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 203
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Shakespeare's plays examine the theme of certainty with consummate skill, exploring evil and good, assurance and its absence, intuition and love, evidence and interpretation and the dialectical methods used to guide moral action.
Author: Richard Wilson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317724003 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 339
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At a time when the relevance of literary theory itself is frequently being questioned, Richard Wilson makes a compelling case for French Theory in Shakespeare Studies. Written in two parts, the first half looks at how French theorists such as Bourdieu, Cixous, Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault were themselves shaped by reading Shakespeare; while the second part applies their theories to the plays, highlighting the importance of both for current debates about borders, terrorism, toleration and a multi-cultural Europe. Contrasting French and Anglo-Saxon attitudes, Wilson shows how in France, Shakespeare has been seen not as a man for the monarchy, but a man of the mob. French Theory thus helps us understand why Shakepeare’s plays swing between violence and hope. Highlighting the recent religious turn in theory, Wilson encourages a reading of plays like Hamlet, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelth Night as models for a future peace. Examining both the violent history and promising future of the plays, Shakespeare in French Theory is a timely reminder of the relevance of Shakespeare and the lasting value of French thinking for the democracy to come.
Author: James Boyd White Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022605635X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 339
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To which institutions or social practices should we grant authority? When should we instead assert our own sense of what is right or good or necessary? In this book, James Boyd White shows how texts by some of our most important thinkers and writers—including Plato, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Mandela, and Lincoln—answer these questions, not in the abstract, but in the way they wrestle with the claims of the world and self in particular historical and cultural contexts. As they define afresh the institutions or practices for which they claim (or resist) authority, they create authorities of their own, in the very modes of thought and expression they employ. They imagine their world anew and transform the languages that give it meaning. In so doing, White maintains, these works teach us about how to read and judge claims of authority made by others upon us; how to decide to which institutions and practices we should grant authority; and how to create authorities of our own through our thoughts and arguments. Elegant and accessible, this book will appeal to anyone wanting to better understand one of the primary processes of our social and political lives.
Author: Antony Tatlow Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 9780822327639 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 320
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DIVExamines Asian staging of Western canonical theater, particularly Shakespeare’s plays, arguing that intercultural performance questions the settled assumptions we bring to our interpretations of familiar texts./div
Author: Walter A. Kaufmann Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691216126 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 476
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A classic book by one of the twentieth century’s most innovative and adventurous thinkers First published in 1959, From Shakespeare to Existentialism offers Walter Kaufmann’s critical interpretations of some of the greatest minds in Western philosophy, religion, and literature. Few scholars can match Kaufmann’s range of interests, from intellectual history and comparative religion to psychology, art, and architecture. In this illuminating and wide-ranging book, he traces the evolving Aristotelian ideal of the great-souled individual, showing how it was forgotten by medieval Christendom but recovered by Shakespeare and apotheosized by Nietzsche. An invaluable companion to his Critique of Religion and Philosophy, this volume presents Kaufmann at his most trailblazing, charting new directions in Western thought while providing bold perspectives on figures such as Goethe, Hegel, Rilke, and Freud.
Author: Hugh Grady
Author: Hugh Grady
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