Shakespeare in Theory and Practice
(Sprache: Englisch)
Theory is valuable to the degree that it enables us to read differently: a nuanced approach shows that the most obvious interpretation is never the whole story. In these essays, brought together here for the first time, world-renowned critic Catherine...
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Theory is valuable to the degree that it enables us to read differently: a nuanced approach shows that the most obvious interpretation is never the whole story. In these essays, brought together here for the first time, world-renowned critic Catherine Belsey puts theory to work in order to register Shakespeare's powers of seduction, together with his moment in history. Teasing out the meanings of the narrative poems, as well as some of the more familiar plays, Shakespeare in Theory and Practice demonstrates the possibilities of an attention to textuality that also draws on the archive. A reading of the Sonnets, written specially for this book, analyses their intricate and ambivalent inscription of desire.
Belsey has been intimately involved with poststructuralism as it has emerged and developed in the English-speaking world. While the earliest essays published here are strongly influenced by Roland Barthes and Louis Althusser, both writers acknowledged a debt to the psychoanalytic account of representation as always unstable, designed at once to reveal and to repress, and Belsey's later work has come to owe more to Lacanian psychoanalysis, in addition to Derridean deconstruction. Between them, these essays trace the progress of theory in the course of three decades, while a new introduction offers a narrative and analytical overview, from a participant's perspective, of some of its key implications.
Written with verve and conviction, this book shows how texts can be seen to offer access to the dissonances of the past when theory finds an outcome in practice.
Key Features
*A very special critic writing on the central figure of English literature
*Provides an exemplary demonstration of poststructuralist theory at work
*Pays particular attention to desire as a theme and as a component of interpretation
*Provides close readings of the texts combining the historical and theoretical
Belsey has been intimately involved with poststructuralism as it has emerged and developed in the English-speaking world. While the earliest essays published here are strongly influenced by Roland Barthes and Louis Althusser, both writers acknowledged a debt to the psychoanalytic account of representation as always unstable, designed at once to reveal and to repress, and Belsey's later work has come to owe more to Lacanian psychoanalysis, in addition to Derridean deconstruction. Between them, these essays trace the progress of theory in the course of three decades, while a new introduction offers a narrative and analytical overview, from a participant's perspective, of some of its key implications.
Written with verve and conviction, this book shows how texts can be seen to offer access to the dissonances of the past when theory finds an outcome in practice.
Key Features
*A very special critic writing on the central figure of English literature
*Provides an exemplary demonstration of poststructuralist theory at work
*Pays particular attention to desire as a theme and as a component of interpretation
*Provides close readings of the texts combining the historical and theoretical
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Shakespeare in Theory and Practice “
Preface; 1. Introduction: Practising with Theory; 2. Psychoanalysis and Early Modern Culture: Lacan with Augustine and Montaigne; 3. Love as Trompe-l'oeil: Taxonomies of Desire in Venus and Adonis; 4. Tarquin Dispossessed: Expropriation and Consent in The Rape of Lucrece; 5. Antinomies of Desire and the Sonnets; 6. Peter Quince's Ballad: Shakespeare, Psychoanalysis, History and A Midsummer Night's Dream; 7. The Illusion of Empire: Elizabethan Expansionism and Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy; 8. Making Histories Then and Now: Shakespeare from Richard II to Henry V; 9. The Case of Hamlet's Conscience; 10. Iago the Essayist; Notes; Index.
Autoren-Porträt von Catherine Belsey
Catherine Belsey is currently Research Professor at Swansea University and formerly Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff University. Best known for her pioneering book, Critical Practice (Methuen, 1980), Catherine Belsey has an international reputation as a deft and sophisticated critical theorist and subtle and eloquent critic of literature, particularly of Renaissance texts. Her books include The Subject of Tragedy: Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama (Methuen, 1985), John Milton: Language, Gender, Power (Basil Blackwell, 1988), Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture (Blackwell, 1994), Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden (Macmillan, 1999), Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2002) and Culture and the Real (Routledge, 2005).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Catherine Belsey
- 2009, 224 Seiten, Maße: 16,5 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: EDINBURGH UNIV PR
- ISBN-10: 0748633014
- ISBN-13: 9780748633012
Sprache:
Englisch
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