The modernist Shakespeare : critical texts in a material world
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The modernist Shakespeare : critical texts in a material world
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1991
Available at 49 libraries
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Bibliography: p. [247]ー257
Includes index
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Description
Every epoch recreates its classic icons - and for literary culture, none is more central nor more protean than Shakespeare. Even though finding the "authentic" Shakespeare has been a goal of scholarship since the eighteenth century, Shakespeare has always been constructed as a contemporary author. This book charts the construction of Shakespeare as a twentieth-century Modernist text. By deploying a materialist analysis that recognizes the importance of formal, aesthetic categories for literary criticism this theoretically informed case study shows how Shakespeare was re-written through re-reading. It describes the removal of literary criticism from the public sphere into the professionalized academy and the subsequent migration of culture into the academy where it co-exists uneasily with professionalist positivism. These interactions resulted in the Modernist Shakespeare of G. Wilson Knight, E. M. W. Tillyard, and American and British New Critics and still conditions the post-modernist Shakespeare output of contemporary feminists, deconstructors, and new historicists.
Table of Contents
- Modernizing Shakespeare - the rise of professionalism
- constructing the modenist paradigm - G. Wilson Knight's spatial hermeneutics
- the new critical Shakespeare - the tensions of utility
- professionalism, nationalism, modernism - the case E.M.W. Tillyard
- towarsd the post-modern Shakespeare - contemporary critical trends.
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