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Author: Rebecca Laroche Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472590457 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 216
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FC -- Half title -- Arden Shakespeare and Theory -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Communities, collaborations and chaos -- The Process of the book -- Introduction: Ecofeminism and the seeds of time -- Ecofeminism past and present -- Ecofeminism in/and early modern studies -- 1 Ecofeminism matters -- Domesticated beings -- Knowing things -- A substance of subject-objects -- Historical practice and present crisis -- 2 Of mouseholes and housefires: Transcorporeal domesticity -- 'Noysome and pestilent things' -- Pest control: The scratching cat and 'the smallest monstrous mouse' -- (Beyond) pest control: Fleas, flies and other creeping creatures -- Between small and great, soft and fierce: The hearth -- After the fire -- 3 How we know any thing -- Nothing is everything -- Unknowability -- 'Howe'er you come to know it' -- The power of and in uncertainty -- 4 The dynamic object -- The indifference of stone -- Dynamism in the garden -- (Boys as) women as plants -- Petrarch in the produce aisle -- Conclusion: Nature, stir: Ecofeminists in the archive -- Healing nature -- Living nature -- Appendix: Excavating nature -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Author: Jennifer Munroe Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472590481 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 216
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Ecofeminism has been an important field of theory in philosophy and environmental studies for decades. It takes as its primary concern the way the relationship between the human and nonhuman is both material and cultural, but it also investigates how this relationship is inherently entangled with questions of gender equity and social justice. Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory engagingly establishes a history of ecofeminist scholarship relevant to early modern studies, and provides a clear overview of this rich field of philosophical enquiry. Through fresh, detailed readings of Shakespeare's poetry and drama, this volume is a wholly original study articulating the ways in which we can better understand the world of Shakespeare's plays, and the relationships between men, women, animals, and plants that we see in them.
Author: Jennifer Munroe Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472590473 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 216
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Ecofeminism has been an important field of theory in philosophy and environmental studies for decades. It takes as its primary concern the way the relationship between the human and nonhuman is both material and cultural, but it also investigates how this relationship is inherently entangled with questions of gender equity and social justice. Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory engagingly establishes a history of ecofeminist scholarship relevant to early modern studies, and provides a clear overview of this rich field of philosophical enquiry. Through fresh, detailed readings of Shakespeare's poetry and drama, this volume is a wholly original study articulating the ways in which we can better understand the world of Shakespeare's plays, and the relationships between men, women, animals, and plants that we see in them.
Author: Elizabeth Gruber Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1351857207 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 186
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rethinking Cosmopolis -- 1 Richard III as Nature's "Black Intelligencer"--2 The Gravid Earth: Exploring the Ecological Imaginary in The Spanish Tragedy and Titus Andronicus -- 3 The Problem of Indistinction in Measure for Measure and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore -- 4 Vanitas and the Ecopolitics of Despair in Macbeth -- 5 "Desolate Strangers": An Ecocritique of Vulnerability in The New Atlantis -- Bibliography -- Index
Author: Juliet Dusinberre Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1349245313 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 375
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Shakespeare and the Nature of Women was the first full-length feminist analysis of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, ushering in a new era in research and criticism. Its arguments for the feminism both of the drama and the early modern period caused instant controversy, which still engrosses scholars. Dusinberre argues that Puritan teaching on sexuality and spiritual equality raises questions about women which feed into the drama, where the role of women in relation to authority structures is constantly renegotiated. Using a critical language which predates Foucault and other major theorists, Shakespeare and the Nature of Women argues that Renaissance drama highlights ways in which the feminine and the masculine are socially constructed. The presence of the boy actor on stage created an awareness of gender as performance, now crucial to contemporary feminist thought. Shakespeare and the Nature of Women claimed for women a right to speak about the literary text from their own place in history and culture. The author's Preface to the second edition traces contemporary developments in feminist scholarship, which still wrestles with the book's main thesis: Renaissance feminism, feminist Shakespeare.
Author: Marianne Novy Publisher: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare ISBN: 9781472567109 Category : Electronic books Languages : en Pages : 211
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Are Shakespeare's plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant, and if so how, that his women were first played by boys? This book shows how many kinds of feminist theory help analyze the dynamics of Shakespeare's plays. Both feminist theory and the plays deal with issues such as likeness and difference between the sexes, the complexity of relationships between women, the liberating possibilities of desire, what marriage means and how much women can remake it, how women can use and expand their culture's ideas of motherhood and of women's work, and how women can have power through language. This lively exploration of these and related issues is an ideal introduction to the field of feminist readings of Shakespeare.
Author: Douglas A. Vakoch Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351209736 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 383
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Bringing together ecofeminism and ecological literary criticism (ecocriticism), this book presents diverse ways of understanding and responding to the tangled relationships between the personal, social, and environmental dimensions of human experience and expression. Literature and Ecofeminism explores the intersections of sexuality, gender, embodiment, and the natural world articulated in literary works from Shakespeare through to contemporary literature. Bringing together essays from a global group of contributors, this volume draws on American literature, as well as Spanish, South African, Taiwanese, and Indian literature, in order to further the dialogue between ecofeminism and ecocriticism and demonstrate the ongoing relevance of ecofeminism for facilitating critical readings of literature. In doing so, the book opens up multiple directions for ecofeminist ideas and practices, as well as new possibilities for interpreting literature. This comprehensive volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecocriticism, ecofeminism, literature, gender studies, and the environmental humanities.
Author: J. Munroe Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137001909 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 379
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Challenges the notion of how early modern women may or may not have spoken for (or even with) nature. By focusing on various forms of 'dialogue,' these essays shift our interest away from speaking and toward listening, to illuminate ways that early modern Englishwomen interacted with their natural surroundings.
Author: Simon C. Estok Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230118747 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 184
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This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of 'Nature' in Shakespeare.
Author: Melissa E. Sanchez Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1474256708 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 248
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Shakespeare and Queer Theory is an indispensable guide on the ongoing critical debates about queer method both within and beyond Shakespeare and early modern studies. Clearly elucidating the central ideas of the theory, the field's historical emergence from feminist and gay and lesbian studies within the academy, and political activism related to the AIDS crisis beyond it, it also illuminates current debates about historicism and embodiment. Through a series of original readings of texts including Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and Venus and Adonis, as well as film adaptations of early modern drama including Derek Jarman's The Tempest and Edward II, Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, and Julie Taymor's Titus, it illustrates the value of queer theory to Shakespeare scholarship, and the value of Shakespearean texts to queer theory.
Author: Rebecca Laroche
Author: Jennifer Munroe
Author: Jennifer Munroe
Author: Elizabeth Gruber
Author: Juliet Dusinberre
Author: Marianne Novy
Author: Miriam F. Kammer
Author: Douglas A. Vakoch
Author: J. Munroe
Author: Simon C. Estok
Author: Melissa E. Sanchez