Author: Eva Schlör Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3640163850 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 30
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Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,3, LMU Munich (Institut für Englische Philologie), course: Shakespeare's Tragedies, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: "Ja, diese Cleopatra ist ein Weib, in der holdseligsten und vermaledeitesten Bedeutung des Wortes." (Heine 1978: 57) This statement - having been published in 1838 - lacks both the scientific objectivity and the political correctness that we today consider crucial for any literary criticism. Yet while already containing the important aspects: the dichotomy "holdselig" vs. "vermaledeit", it stresses the importance of the female protagonist and considers her a prototype of "the female". Many critics followed the German poet and important critic of the time (who was far from limiting his criticism to literature) in all three points. The aim of this paper is to discuss feminist approaches to the play - most prominently the one of Coppélia Kahn - and to point out ways in which post-structuralist theories could complement these approaches. I will base my argumentation on the Arden edition of Antony and Cleopatra, mostly because the annotations allow for a comparison of the text to Shakespeare's source, Plutarch. The changes, the varying importance given to events, passages and dramatic intention - these all turn out to be extremely helpful.
Author: James Cunningham Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press ISBN: 9780838637111 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 252
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Individual chapters deal with cultural materialism, new historicism, poststructuralism, and feminist criticism. The theoretical basis of each critical mode is examined and some representative critiques analyzed. Most importantly, in each chapter the various interpretations are tested against Shakespeare's texts, and the strengths and weaknesses of the different readings are assessed.
Author: Stuart Sillars Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107193249 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 315
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Shows how illustrated editions and paintings of the plays were originally produced and read as critical, social and political statements.
Author: Pelagia Goulimari Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135053014 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 437
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This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from ancient Greece to the present. Grounded in the close reading of landmark theoretical texts, while seeking to encourage the reader's critical response, Pelagia Goulimari examines: major thinkers and critics from Plato and Aristotle to Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Said and Butler; key concepts, themes and schools in the history of literary theory: mimesis, inspiration, reason and emotion, the self, the relation of literature to history, society, culture and ethics, feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, queer theory; genres and movements in literary history: epic, tragedy, comedy, the novel; Romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. Historical connections between theorists and theories are traced and the book is generously cross-referenced. With useful features such as key-point conclusions, further reading sections, descriptive text boxes, detailed headings, and with a comprehensive index, this book is the ideal introduction to anyone approaching literary theory for the first time or unfamiliar with the scope of its history.
Author: April De Angelis Publisher: ISBN: 9780571191390 Category : Languages : en Pages : 86
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A comedy with a hard centre, this play concerns Miranda, a social worker. Miranda has her clients' problems to contend with at work, and her own at home with Roger, her partner, and Emma, her best friend who's having a mid-life crisis.
Author: Fabienne Darling-Wolf Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472900153 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 201
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Based on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in different parts of the world, Imagining the Global reflects on what contemporary global culture can teach us about transnational cultural dynamics in the 21st century. A focused multisited cultural analysis that reflects on the symbiotic relationship between the local, the national, and the global, it also explores how individuals’ consumption of global media shapes their imagination of both faraway places and their own local lives. Chosen for their continuing influence, historical relationships, and different geopolitical positions, the case sites of France, Japan, and the United States provide opportunities to move beyond common dichotomies between East and West, or United States and “the rest.” From a theoretical point of view, Imagining the Global endeavors to answer the question of how one locale can help us understand another locale. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources—several years of fieldwork; extensive participant observation; more than 80 formal interviews with some 160 media consumers (and occasionally producers) in France, Japan, and the United States; and analyses of media in different languages—author Fabienne Darling-Wolf considers how global culture intersects with other significant identity factors, including gender, race, class, and geography. Imagining the Global investigates who gets to participate in and who gets excluded from global media representation, as well as how and why the distinction matters.
Author: B. Czarniawska-Joerges Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135305072 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 343
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This collection of essays demonstrates how novels are not only comparable, but often superior to the case histories used in business education. As many novelists have had personal experience of working in organizations, their work combines introspective insight with analytical skill.
Author: Eva Schlör
Author: James Cunningham
Author: Stuart Sillars
Author: Susan Glaspell
Author: Pelagia Goulimari
Author: April De Angelis
Author: Fabienne Darling-Wolf
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Author: Diane Watt
Author: B. Czarniawska-Joerges