Author: Joseph L. Laurenti
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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Author: Laura Doyle
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478012617
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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In Inter-imperiality Laura Doyle theorizes the co-emergence of empires, institutions, language regimes, stratified economies, and literary cultures over the longue durée. Weaving together feminist, decolonial, and dialectical theory, she shows how inter-imperial competition has generated a systemic stratification of gendered, racialized labor, while literary and other arts have helped both to constitute and to challenge this world order. To study literature is therefore, Doyle argues, to attend to world-historical processes of imaginative and material co-formation as they have unfolded through successive eras of vying empires. It is also to understand oral, performed, and written literatures as power-transforming resources for the present and future. To make this case, Doyle analyzes imperial-economic processes across centuries and continents in tandem with inter-imperially entangled literatures, from A Thousand and One Nights to recent Caribbean fiction. Her trenchant interdisciplinary method reveals the structural centrality of imaginative literature in the politics and possibilities of earthly life.

Author: Barbara Fuchs
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812244753
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Devotes considerable attention to Cardenio (the collaboration between Shakespeare and Fletcher) and its notional offspring (works by Greenblatt and Mee, Doran, Armenteros, et al.), discussing all these texts' relations to Cervantes's work and the nature of the various kinds of borrowings and influences.

Author: Jean-Pierre Maquerlot
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521475006
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Interconnections between voyage narratives and travel plays in Shakespeare's era.

Author: Barbara Fuchs
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 144264902X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires. Bringing together studies of English, Spanish, Italian, and Ottoman literature and cultural artifacts, the volume moves from the broadest issues of representation in the Mediterranean to a case study – early modern England – where the “Mediterranean turn” has radically changed the field. The essays in this wide-ranging literary and cultural study examine the rhetoric which surrounds imperial competition in this era, ranging from poems commemorating the battle of Lepanto to elaborately adorned maps of contested frontiers. They will be of interest to scholars in fields such as history, comparative literary studies, and religious studies.

Author: Alden T. Vaughan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521458177
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Shakespeare's Caliban examines The Tempest's "savage and deformed slave" as a fascinating but ambiguous literary creation with a remarkably diverse history. The authors, one a historian and the other a Shakespearean, explore the cultural background of Caliban's creation in 1611 and his disparate metamorphoses to the present time.

Author: Barbara Fuchs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521543507
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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As powerful, pointed imitation, cultural mimesis can effect inclusion in a polity, threaten state legitimacy, or undo the originality upon which such legitimacy is based. In Mimesis and Empire , first published in 2001, Barbara Fuchs explores the intricate dynamics of imitation and contradistinction among early modern European powers in literary and historiographical texts from sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Spain, Italy, England and the New World. The book considers a broad sweep of material, including European representations of New World subjects and of Islam, both portrayed as 'other' in contemporary texts. It supplements the transatlantic perspective on early modern imperialism with an awareness of the situation in the Mediterranean and considers problems of reading and literary transmission; imperial ideology and colonial identities; counterfeits and forgery; and piracy.

Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520080218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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The five centuries which have passed since the discovery of the New World have not diminished the overwhelming importance or strangeness of the early encounter between Europeans and native Americans. This collection of essays offers a multidisciplinary approach to this meeting of cultures.

Author: Jeffrey Masten
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810128454
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Rather than assemble a retrospective, the editors of Renaissance Drama use the release of their fortieth volume to survey the present and to attempt a view into the future. Scholars working on different kinds of Renaissance drama contributed brief essays addressing the state of their field, "field" being convenient shorthand for the practical but productive lack of a firm definition under which they and their colleagues study, do research, and write.

Author: Peter Hulme
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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