Book Description
This book attempts to look into the problematic trajectories of Shakespeare's use of violence in three of his tragedies -- TITUS ANDRONICUS, HAMLET and MACBETH and considers the possibility of their contemporary interpretations.
Author : Baul
Publisher : Quintus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Violence in literature
ISBN : 9789380905747
This book attempts to look into the problematic trajectories of Shakespeare's use of violence in three of his tragedies -- TITUS ANDRONICUS, HAMLET and MACBETH and considers the possibility of their contemporary interpretations.
Author : Roy Starrs
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 1994-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824816315
Although Mishima's main literary ambition was to write philosophical novels in the tradition of Goethe and Thomas Mann, Deadly Dialectics is the first critical study to take this objective seriously: it also provides the first adequate account of Mishima's intellectual background and characteristic modes of thought and it is the first book to show the intimate and integral relation between his thought and his psychology and militant politics - or, more specifically, between his nihilism, his sexuality and his propensity to violence.
Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3794 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000519384
This 14-volume set contains titles originally published between 1926 and 1992. An eclectic mix, this collection examines Shakespeare’s work from a number of different perspectives, looking at history, language, performance and more it includes references to many of his plays as well as his sonnets.
Author : Francis Barker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226037189
'Culture' and 'violence' have always been regarded as antithetical terms. In The Culture of Violence, Francis Barker takes a different view. Central to his argument is the contention that, contrary to post-Enlightenment humanist, liberal and conservative thought, 'culture' does not necessarily stand in opposition to political inequality and social injustice, but may be complicit with the oppressive exercise of power. The book focuses on Shakespearean tragedy and on the historicism and culturalism of much present-day cultural theory. Barker's analysis moves dialectically backwards and forwards between these two moments in order to illuminate aspects of early modern culture, and to critique the ways in which the complicity between culture and violence has been occluded. Rejecting the tendency of both modernism and post-modernism to homogenise historical time, Barker argues for a genuinely new, 'diacritical' understanding of the violence of history.
Author : Kenneth Muir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2002-11-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521523639
The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.
Author : Pamela Bickley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350068667
Shakespeare's plays have long been open to reimagining and reinterpretation, from John Fletcher's riposte to The Taming of the Shrew in 1611 to present day spin-offs in a whole range of media, including YouTube videos and Manga comics. This book offers a clear route map through the world of adaptation, selecting examples from film, drama, prose fiction, ballet, the visual arts and poetry, and exploring their respective political and cultural interactions with Shakespeare's plays. 36 specific case studies are discussed, three for each of the 12 plays covered, offering additional guidance for readers new to this important area of Shakespeare studies. The introduction signals key adaptation issues that are subsequently explored through the chapters on individual plays, including Shakespeare's own adaptive art and its Renaissance context, production and performance as adaptation, and generic expectation and transmedial practice. Organized chronologically, the chapters cover the most commonly studied plays, allowing readers to dip in to read about specific plays or trace how technological developments have fundamentally changed ways in which Shakespeare is experienced. With examples encompassing British, North American, South and East Asian, European and Middle Eastern adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, the volume offers readers a wealth of insights drawn from different ages, territories and media.
Author : Bradford T. Stull
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 1994-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791420829
Explores the possibility of a postmodern liberation rhetoric. Stull (English, Indiana U.-East) uses rhetoric to address the question of how humans can imagine better worlds when surrounded by unspeakable pain. Defines terms such as postmodern, pain, imagination, and religion, and discusses the theory and practice of four contemporary rhetoricians--postmoderns Kenneth Burke and Thomas Merton, and liberationists Paulo Freire of Brazil and Oscar Romero of El Salvador. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Laurence Raw
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476632871
Critics and audiences often judge films, books and other media as "great" --but what does that really mean? This collection of new essays examines the various criteria by which degrees of greatness (or not-so) are constructed--whether by personal, political or social standards--through topics in cinema, literature and adaptation. The contributors recognize how issues of value vary across different cultures, and explore what those differences say about attitudes and beliefs.
Author : Julián Jiménez Heffernan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 14,98 MB
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9004526633
The times when abstaining from cakes and ale was seen as a sign of critical virtue are over. Phenomenal Shakespeare is at your back lawn with a picnic-basket jammed with intersubjectivity, embodiment, immediacy, representation. If you feel like passing, read this book.
Author : Leonard Moss
Publisher :
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Tragedy
ISBN :