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  • Shakespeare's Dialectic of Hope

    From the Political to the Utopian

    by Hugh Grady ...
    Closely examining the relationship between the political and the utopian in five major plays from different phases of Shakespeare's career, Hugh Grady shows the dialectical link between the earlier political dramas and the late plays or tragicomedies. Reading Julius Caesar and Macbeth from the tragic period alongside The Winter's Tale and Tempest from the utopian end of Shakespeare's career, with ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Empson, Wilson Knight, Barber, Kott

    Great Shakespeareans: Volume XIII

    Edited by Professor Hugh Grady ...
    Series series Great Shakespeareans
    Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of William Empson, G. Wilson Knight, C.L. Barber and Jan Kott to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each ... Read more

    $198.99 USD

  • John Donne and Baroque Allegory

    The Aesthetics of Fragmentation

    by Hugh Grady ...
    John Donne has been one of the most controversial poets in the history of English literature, his complexity and intellectualism provoking both praise and censure. In this major re-assessment of Donne's poetry, Hugh Grady argues that his work can be newly appreciated in our own era through Walter Benjamin's theory of baroque allegory. Providing close readings of The Anniversaries, The Songs and ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Presentist Shakespeares

    Edited by Hugh Grady, Terence Hawkes ...
    Series series Accents on Shakespeare
    Presentist Shakespeares is the first extended study of the principles and practice of 'presentism', a critical movement that takes account of the never-ending dialogue between past and present.In this bold and consistently thought-provoking collection of presentist readings, the contributors:argue that the ironies generated by our involvement in time are a fruitful, necessary and an unavoidable ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and Modernity

    Early Modern to Millennium

    Edited by Hugh Grady ...
    Series series Accents on Shakespeare
    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 ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics

    by Hugh Grady ...
    Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics explores ideas about art implicit in Shakespeare's plays and defines specific Shakespearean aesthetic practices in his use of desire, death and mourning as resources for art. Hugh Grady draws on a tradition of aesthetic theorists who understand art as always formed in a specific historical moment but as also distanced from its context through its form and Utopian ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy

    Edited by Michael Neill, David Schalkwyk ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy presents fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experienced actor. The opening section explores ways in which later generations ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Echoes of Desire

    English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses

    by Heather Dubrow ...
    Echoes of Desire variously invokes and interrogates a number of historicist and feminist premises about Tudor and Stuart literature by examining the connections between the anti-Petrarchan tradition and mainstream Petrarchan poetry. It also addresses some of the broader implications of contemporary critical methodologies. Heather Dubrow offers an alternative to the two predominant models used in ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare's Hamlet

    Philosophical Perspectives

    Edited by Tzachi Zamir ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Lit
    Does philosophy gain or lose when it is embedded within literature or embodied by drama? Does literary criticism gain or lose when it turns to literary works as occasions for abstract reflection? Leading literary scholars and philosophers interrogate philosophical dimensions of Shakespeare's Hamlet with these urgent questions in view. Scholars probe Hamlet's own insights, assess the significance ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign

    by Antony Tatlow, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    In Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign renowned Brecht scholar Antony Tatlow uses drama to investigate cultural crossings and to show how intercultural readings or performances question the settled assumptions we bring to interpretations of familiar texts. Through a “textual anthropology” Tatlow examines the interplay between interpretations of Shakespeare and readings of Brecht, whose ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Reading Renaissance Ethics

    Edited by Marshall Grossman ...
    Bringing together some of the best current practitioners of historical and formal criticism, Reading Renaissance Ethics assesses the ethical performance of renaissance texts as historical agents in their time and in ours.Exploring the nature and mechanics of cultural agency, the book explains with greater clarity just what is at stake when canon-formation, aesthetic evaluation and curricular ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Profiling Shakespeare

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    The title of this collection, Profiling Shakespeare, is meant strongly in its double sense. These essays show the outline of a Shakespeare rather different from the man sought by biographers from his time to our own. They also show the effects, the ephemera, the clues and cues, welcome and unwelcome, out of which Shakespeare's admirers and dedicated scholars have pieced together a vision of the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD