Uses of history : Marxism, postmodernism, and the Renaissance

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Uses of history : Marxism, postmodernism, and the Renaissance

edited by Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, and Margaret Iversen

(The Essex symposia : literature, politics, theory, literature, politics, theory)

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1991

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Bibliography: p. [179]-185

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book presents advanced research by people working in the field of a critical theory of literature which sets its work in the prevailing political and historical context and applies it to the re-reading of literary and cultural texts. Included in the topics covered in this volume, one of a series, are the historical ground between "Richard II" and "Henry V", poetics versus materialism in the Renaissance and the place of AIDS and plagues in history.

Table of Contents

  • Making histories then and now - Shakespeare from "Richard II" to "Henry V", Catherine Belsey
  • which dead? - "Hamlet" and the ends of history, Francis Barker
  • "cultural poetics" versus "cultural materialism" - the two new historicisms in Renaissance studies, Howard Felperin
  • towards a postmodern, politically committed, historical practice, Jean E. Howard
  • "No offence i' the world" - "Hamlet" and unlawful marriage, Lisa Jardine
  • whose crisis? - AIDS/plagues and the subject of history, John J.Joughin
  • production, reproduction, performance - Marxism, history, theatre, Graham Holderness.

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  • NCID
    BA13307688
  • ISBN
    • 0719035120
  • LCCN
    91017278
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Manchester, UK ; New York, NY, USA,New York, NY, USA
  • Pages/Volumes
    192 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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