Author: Neema ParviniPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474432891
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Examines the aesthetics, concepts and politics of chaotic and obscured moving images.
Shakespeare's Moral Compass
Author: Neema ParviniPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474432891
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Examines the aesthetics, concepts and politics of chaotic and obscured moving images.
Shakespeare's Moral Compass
Author: Neema ParviniPublisher: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy
ISBN: 9781474432887
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This ground-breaking study fearlessly combines latest research in evolutionary psychology, historical scholarship and philosophy to answer a question that has eluded critics for centuries: what is Shakespeare's moral vision?
Shakespeare's Philosophy
Author: Colin McGinnPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060856157
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Shakespeare's plays are usually studied by literary scholars and historians and the books about him from those perspectives are legion. It is most unusual for a trained philosopher to give us his insight, as Colin McGinn does here, into six of Shakespeare's greatest plays—A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, and The Tempest. In his brilliant commentary, McGinn explores Shakespeare's philosophy of life and illustrates how he was influenced, for example, by the essays of Montaigne that were translated into English while Shakespeare was writing. In addition to chapters on the great plays, there are also essays on Shakespeare and gender and his plays from the aspects of psychology, ethics, and tragedy. As McGinn says about Shakespeare, "There is not a sentimental bone in his body. He has the curiosity of a scientist, the judgement of a philosopher, and the soul of a poet." McGinn relates the ideas in the plays to the later philosophers such as David Hume and the modern commentaries of critics such as Harold Bloom. The book is an exhilarating reading experience, especially at a time when a new audience has opened up for the greatest writer in English.
Shakespeare's History Plays
Author: Neema ParviniPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 147442354X
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Shakespeare's History Plays boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare as a supremely intelligent and creative political thinker, whose history plays address and illuminate the very questions with which cultural historicists have been so preoccupied since the 1980s. In providing bold and original readings of the first and second tetralogies (Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II and Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2), the book reignites old debates and re-energises recent bids to humanise Shakespeare and to restore agency to the individual in the critical readings of his plays
Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory
Author: Neema ParviniPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441193936
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A complete critical introduction to New Historicist and Cultural Materialist approaches that have dominated contemporary Shakespeare theory, as well as alternative new directions.
Shakespearean Melancholy
Author: J.F. BernardPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474417345
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A new edition of the bestselling textbook for Scottish teacher training courses.
Derrida Reads Shakespeare
Author: Chiara AlfanoPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474409881
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book brings to light Derrida's rich and thought-provoking discussions of Shakespearean drama.
Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare
Author: Gillian KnollPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474428541
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Drawing from cognitive theories about the metaphorical nature of thought, Gillian Knoll traces the contours of three conceptual metaphors - motion, space and creativity - that shape desire in plays by John Lyly and William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare and the Truth-Teller
Author: David HershinowPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474439594
Category : Cynicism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Highlighting the necessity of literary thinking to political philosophy, this book explores Shakespeare's responses to sixteenth-century debates over the revolutionary potential of Cynic critical activity.
Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic
Author: Patrick GrayPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474427472
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome This book introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche. It considers Shakespeare's place in the history of concepts of selfhood and reflects on his sympathy for Christianity, in light of his reception of medieval Biblical drama, as well as his allusions to the New Testament. Shakespeare's critique of Romanitas anticipates concerns about secularisation, individualism and liberalism shared by philosophers such as Hannah Arendt, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Michael Sandel and Patrick Deneen.