Shakespeare and the question of culture : early modern literature and the cultural turn

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Shakespeare and the question of culture : early modern literature and the cultural turn

Douglas Bruster

(Early modern cultural series)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

1st ed

  • : hardback
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

The last two decades have witnessed a profound change in the way we receive the literary texts of early modern England. One could call this a move from 'text' to 'culture'. Put briefly, earlier critics tended to focus on literary texts, strictly conceived: plays, poems, prose fictions, essays. Since the mid-1980s, however, it has been just as likely for critics to speak of the 'culture' of early modern England, even when they do so in conjunction with analysis of literary texts. This 'cultural turn' has clearly enriched the way in which we read the texts of early modern England, but the interdisciplinary practices involved have frequently led critics to make claims about materials - and about the 'culture' these materials appear to embody - that exceed those materials' representativeness. Shakespeare and the Question of Culture addresses the central issue of 'culture' in early modern studies through both literary history and disciplinary critique. Douglas Bruster argues that the 'culture' literary critiques investigate through the works of Shakespeare and other writers is largely a literary culture, and he examines what this necessary limitation of the scope of 'cultural studies' means for the discipline of early modern studies.

目次

Preface Introduction: Shakespeare and the Question of Culture Early Modern Literary Culture From Literature to Culture and Back Again Print Culture and Aggression in Late Elizabethan England Literary Culture and "Lesbian" Eroticism in Early Modern Drama The Dramatic Life of Objects in the Early Modern Theater Critical Culture Early Modern News Shakespeare and the End of History: Period as Brand Name The New Materialism The New Formalism Conclusion: Shakespeare after the 'Cultural Turn'

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