Shakespearean tragedy
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Shakespearean tragedy
（Longman critical readers）
Longman, 1992
- pbk.
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Bibliography : p. 420-422
Includes index
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pbk. ISBN 9780582051140
Description
Shakespearean Tragedy brings together fifteen major contemporary essays on individual plays and the genre as a whole. Each piece has been carefully chosen as a key intervention in its own right and as a representative of an influential critical approach to the genre. The collection as a whole, therefore, provides both a guide and explanation to the various ways in which contemporary criticism has determined our understanding of the tragedies, and the opportunity for assessing the wider issues such criticism raises.
The collection begins by considering the impact of social semiotics on approaches to the tragedies, before moving on to deal, in turn, with the various forms of Marxist criticism, New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Poststructuralism.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Tragedy and metaphysics Freud and the pleasure of tragedy Aristotle and tragedy Nietzsche and tragedy Hegel and Bradley on tragedy Tragedy and social order Tragedy and violence Tragedy and the pharmakos Materialist Tragedy 2. Semiotics 2.1 The Great Eclipse: Tragic Form as the Deconsecration of Sovereignty, Franco Moretti 2.2 The Breakdown of Medieval Hierarchy in "King Lear", Alessandro Serpieri
- trans. Sandra Payne 3. Marxism and materialism 3.1 Aristocratic Failure, Walter Cohen 3.2 Shakespeare's Theatre: Tradition and Experiment, Robert Weimann 4. New Historicism 4.1 The Improvision of Power, Stephen Greenblatt 5. Cultural materialism 5.1 "King Lear" (c. 1605-6) and Essentialist Humanism, Jonathon Dollimore 6. Feminism 6.1 Finding a Place, Catherine Belsey 6.2 The Late Tragedies, Marilyn French 6.3 Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness and the Responsabilities of Feminist Criticism, Elaine Showalter 7. Psychoanalytical criticism 7.1 "Romeo and Ju
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ISBN 9780582051157
Description
This series takes up the challenge of contemporary literary theory providing collections of seminal modern readings of key authors, genres and critical approaches. This volume brings together a range of work on aspects of Shakesperean Tragedy. Each excerpt focuses on one aspect of a range of critical perspectives. The aim of the text is not to comment on each of the individual tragedies but to offer different approaches for consideration and to provide a sufficient context to stimulate further study. Excerpts are taken from a wide range of sources including social semiotics, Marxist materialism, feminism, new historicism and poststructualism, amongst others. It covers work currently being done in Britain, America and Europe.
Table of Contents
- Semiotics
- Marxism and materialism
- new historicism
- cultural materialism
- feminism
- psychoanalytical criticism
- post-structuralism and materialism.
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