The Modernity of Shakespeare

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Book Synopsis The Modernity of Shakespeare by : Ismail Serageldin

Download or read book The Modernity of Shakespeare written by Ismail Serageldin and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This little book provides an insightful reading of Shakespeare. Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka highlights this in his foreword, where he says:"... Ismail Serageldin has chosen to focus, in the main, on what he astutely discerns as uncomfortable threads in most (European) analyses of Shakespeare's plays: the themes of marginalization, and-to put it bluntly-racism. Focussing especially on two plays that illuminate this region of understated themes, he restores the focus of race and prejudice to a rounded reading of the texts, and does justice to the English bard regarding his own position, much misunderstood, on these questions".Serageldin devotes half the book to a review of the various "schools" of literary criticism that have tackled the Bard's immortal works. He looks at the Classical Interpretations, the Political Neo-Marxist School, The New Historicists, The Feminist Critique, the Deconstructionists and Post-Structuralists, as well as some other schools. He declares himself most in keeping with Kiernan Ryan's critique. But then he goes on to presenting his own views applying his insights in analyzing two plays: a comedy (the Merchant of Venice) and a tragedy (Othello). Highlighting in both cases the themes of Marginalization and Racism, that tend to be at best relegated to the background in most of the established (European) critiques. In so doing he fulfils the promise of the title, that there is a contemporary modernity in the writings of Shakespeare that speak to us through the ages.

Shakespeare and Modernity

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134616384
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Modernity by : Hugh Grady

Download or read book Shakespeare and Modernity written by Hugh Grady and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth collection of essays traces the changing reception of Shakespeare over the past four hundred years, during which time Shakespeare has variously been seen as the last great exponent of pre-modern Western culture, a crucial inaugurator of modernity, and a prophet of postmodernity. This fresh look at Shakespeare's plays is an important contribution to the revival of the idea of 'modernity' and how we periodise ourselves, and Shakespeare, at the beginning of a new millennium.

Shakespeare and Modern Theatre

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134601204
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Modern Theatre by : Michael Bristol

Download or read book Shakespeare and Modern Theatre written by Michael Bristol and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Shakespeare and Modern Culture

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307390969
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Modern Culture by : Marjorie Garber

Download or read book Shakespeare and Modern Culture written by Marjorie Garber and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the world's premier Shakespeare scholars comes a magisterial new study whose premise is "that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare." Shakespeare has determined many of the ideas that we think of as "naturally" true: ideas about human character, individuality and selfhood, government, leadership, love and jealousy, men and women, youth and age. Marjorie Garber delves into ten plays to explore the interrelationships between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, from James Joyce's Ulysses to George W. Bush's reading list. From the persistence of difference in Othello to the matter of character in Hamlet to the untimeliness of youth in Romeo and Juliet, Garber discusses how these ideas have been re-imagined in modern fiction, theater, film, and the news, and in the literature of psychology, sociology, political theory, business, medicine, and law. Shakespeare and Modern Culture is a brilliant recasting of our own mental and emotional landscape as refracted through the prism of the protean Shakespeare.

Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of Modernity

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023061373X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of Modernity by : A. Guneratne

Download or read book Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of Modernity written by A. Guneratne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in-depth cultural history of cinema's polyvalent and often contradictory appropriations of Shakespearean drama and performance traditions. The author argues that these adapatations have helped shape multiple aspects of film, from cinematic style to genre and narrative construction.

Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108474039
Total Pages : 275 pages
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies by : Emma Whipday

Download or read book Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies written by Emma Whipday and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reassess the relationship between Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and the emerging genre of domestic tragedy by other early modern playwrights.

Shakespearean Representation

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400868297
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespearean Representation by : Howard Felperin

Download or read book Shakespearean Representation written by Howard Felperin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are often told that Shakespeare is our contemporary, yet we insist just as often on the Elizabethan quality of his work as it reflects a culture remote from our own. Beginning with this paradox, Howard Felperin explores the question of modernity in literature. He directs his attention toward several older poets and examines Shakespeare in particular to show how literary modernity depends, not on chronological considerations, but on the process of mimesis, or imitation, that art has traditionally claimed for itself. In analyzing Shakespeare's major tragedies, Professor Felperin notes that each carries within it a model of its dramatic prototypes, and therefore requires a conservative response from its interpreters. In the interest of being truer to life than its model, however, each play departs from that model and so requires a Romantic or modernist response as well. The author contends that Shakespeare's meaning arises from this ambivalent relation to the forms of the past. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Liberal Terror

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745665799
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Book Synopsis Liberal Terror by : Brad Evans

Download or read book Liberal Terror written by Brad Evans and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security is meant to make the world safer. Yet despite living in the most secure of times, we see endangerment everywhere. Whether it is the threat of another devastating terrorist attacks, a natural disaster or unexpected catastrophe, anxieties and fears define the global political age. While liberal governments and security agencies have responded by advocating a new catastrophic topography of interconnected planetary endangerment, our desire to securitize everything has rendered all things potentially terrifying. This is the fateful paradox of contemporary liberal rule. The more we seek to secure, the more our imaginaries of threat proliferate. Nothing can therefore be left to chance. For everything has the potential to be truly catastrophic. Such is the emerging state of terror normality we find ourselves in today. This illuminating book by Brad Evans provides a critical evaluation of the wide ranging terrors which are deemed threatening to advanced liberal societies. Moving beyond the assumption that liberalism is integral to the realisation of perpetual peace, human progress, and political emancipation on a planetary scale, it exposes how liberal security regimes are shaped by a complex life-centric rationality which directly undermines any claims to universal justice and co-habitation. Through an incisive and philosophically enriched critique of the contemporary liberal practices of making life more secure, Evans forces us to confront the question of what it means to live politically as we navigate through the dangerous uncertainty of the 21st Century.

Shakespeare and Modernism

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521845394
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Modernism by : Cary DiPietro

Download or read book Shakespeare and Modernism written by Cary DiPietro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Shakespeare, the Goddess, and Modernity

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1469746271
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (697 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare, the Goddess, and Modernity by : John O'Meara

Download or read book Shakespeare, the Goddess, and Modernity written by John O'Meara and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "O'Meara's work is the perfect supplement to [Ted] Hughes's "Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being", shedding further illumination into those areas where Hughes's penetrating lens finally appears to dim. [This work] shines utterly clear light on the path of understanding we may re-win with regard to myth, forcing the reader to face the incredible starkness of the prospect we face—and the lack of options—ever closing in—and also giving the reader the necessary clues to follow, particularly Barfield, Shakespeare and Rudolf Steiner." —Richard Ramsbotham, author of Who Wrote Bacon? William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon and James I "Very interesting stuff. Particularly where you parallel the break through the tragic dead end to the transcendental-redemptive solution--that I follow from "Macbeth" through "Lear" to the last plays--with the Steinerian view of the same progress." —Ted Hughes on Othello's Sacrifice, Letter to John O'Meara, 21 November, 1996, in the Ted Hughes Archives, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia This volume brings together virtually all of the published shorter critical work of John O'Meara, gathered from over 30 years of production. What emerges is an extensive, uniquely challenging interpretation of the evolution of, for the most part, English literary history, from Shakespeare's time to our own. "excellent Shakespearean explorations...The idea of Lutheran depravity without Lutheran grace or Lutheran-Calvinist justification is very strong and original..." —Anthony Gash, author of The Substance of Shadows: Shakespeare's Dialogue with Plato "O'Meara sets out to demonstrate... the essential fact that "full encounter with human depravity" was[/is] a necessary step in the attaining of true [otherworldly] Imagination." —Eric Philips-Oxford, on The New School of the Imagination from the Sektion fur Schone Wissenschaften, the Goetheanum, Newsletter, Issue No. 3, Winter/Spring 2008-2009.

The Modernist Shakespeare

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Modernist Shakespeare by : Hugh Grady

Download or read book The Modernist Shakespeare written by Hugh Grady and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every epoch recreates its classical icons--and for literary culture no icon is more central or more protean than Shakespeare. Even though finding the authentic Shakespeare has been a goal of scholarship since the eighteenth century, he has always been constructed as a contemporary author. In this critical study, Grady charts the construction of Shakespeare as a twentieth-century text, redirecting "new historicist" methods to an investigation of the social roots of contemporary Shakespeare criticism. Beginning with the formation of professionalism as an ideology in the Victorian Age, this theoretically-informed study describes widespread attempts to save the values of the cultural tradition, in reformulated Modernist guise, from the threat of professionalist postivism in modern universities.

Shakespeare and Modernity

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ISBN 13 : 9780203253687
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (536 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Modernity by : Hugh Grady

Download or read book Shakespeare and Modernity written by Hugh Grady and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth collection of essays traces the changing reception of Shakespeare over the past four hundred years, during which time Shakespeare has variously been seen as the last great exponent of pre-modern Western culture, a crucial inaugurator of modernity, and a prophet of postmodernity. This fresh look at Shakespeare's plays is an important contribution to the revival of the idea of 'modernity' and how we periodise ourselves, and Shakespeare, at the beginning of a new millennium.

The Modernity of Shakespeare

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Total Pages : 16 pages
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Book Synopsis The Modernity of Shakespeare by : George Coffin Taylor

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Shakespeare and Abraham

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Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 026808355X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Abraham by : Ken Jackson

Download or read book Shakespeare and Abraham written by Ken Jackson and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shakespeare and Abraham, Ken Jackson illuminates William Shakespeare’s dramatic fascination with the story of Abraham’s near sacrifice of his son Isaac in Genesis 22. Themes of child killing fill Shakespeare’s early plays: Genesis 22 informed Clifford’s attack on young Rutland in 3 Henry 6, Hubert’s providentially thwarted murder of Arthur in King John, and Aaron the Moor’s surprising decision to spare his son amidst the filial slaughters of Titus Andronicus, among others. However, the playwright’s full engagement with the biblical narrative does not manifest itself exclusively in scenes involving the sacrifice of children or in verbal borrowings from the famously sparse story of Abraham. Jackson argues that the most important influence of Genesis 22 and its interpretive tradition is to be found in the conceptual framework that Shakespeare develops to explore relationships among ideas of religion, sovereignty, law, and justice. Jackson probes the Shakespearean texts from the vantage of modern theology and critical theory, while also orienting them toward the traditions concerning Abraham in Jewish, Pauline, patristic, medieval, and Reformation sources and early English drama. Consequently, the playwright’s “Abrahamic explorations” become strikingly apparent in unexpected places such as the “trial” of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and the bifurcated structure of Timon of Athens. By situating Shakespeare in a complex genealogy that extends from ancient religion to postmodern philosophy, Jackson inserts Shakespeare into the larger contemporary conversation about religion in the modern world.

Re-Humanising Shakespeare

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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748629971
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Book Synopsis Re-Humanising Shakespeare by : Andrew Mousley

Download or read book Re-Humanising Shakespeare written by Andrew Mousley and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Shakespeare help us with the question of how to live? Re-Humanising Shakespeare argues that although Shakespeare himself contributed to the uncertainties of modern living, his work can still serve as a source of existential wisdom and guidance.The book examines through a wide range of Shakespeare's plays the conditions under which human beings flourish or perish. Love, ethics, emotion, vulnerability and humility are amongst the topics discussed as part of the book's argument that Shakespeare is continually at pains to reclaim the human from its complete liquefaction. Given the range and originality of its approach, Re-Humanising Shakespeare will make provocative reading for all those interested in Shakespeare, ethics and questions of literary value.

Shakespeare's Universal Wolf

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198130048
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Universal Wolf by : Hugh Grady

Download or read book Shakespeare's Universal Wolf written by Hugh Grady and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare was neither a Royalist defender of order and hierarchy nor a consistently radical champion of social equality, but rather simultaneously radical and conservative as a critic of emerging forms of modernity. Hugh Grady argues that Shakespeare's social criticism in fact often parallels that of critics of modernity from our own Postmodernist era. Thus the broad analysis of modernity produced by Marx, Horkheimer and Adorno, Foucault, and others can serve to illuminate Shakespeare's own depiction of an emerging modernity - a depiction epitomized by the image in Troilus and Cressida of 'an universal wolf' of appetite, power, and will. The readings of Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear, and As You Like It in Shakespeare's Universal Wolf demonstrate Shakespeare's keen interest in what twentieth-century theory has called 'reification' - a term which designates social systems created by human societies but which confront those societies as operating beyond human control, according to an autonomous 'systems' logic - in nascent mercantile capitalism, in power-oriented Machiavellian politics, and in the scientistic, value-free rationality which Horkheimer and Adorno call 'instrumental reason'.

Shakespeare in Asia

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521515521
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare in Asia by : Dennis Kennedy

Download or read book Shakespeare in Asia written by Dennis Kennedy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors from a wide variety of backgrounds debate how and why Shakespeare has been used and reinvented in contemporary Asia.