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Appropriating Shakespeare Brian Vickers

Appropriating Shakespeare von Brian Vickers

Appropriating Shakespeare Brian Vickers


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Zusammenfassung

During the last two decades, new critical schools of Shakespeare scholarship have emerged, each with its own ideology. This book argues that in attempting to appropriate Shakespeare for their own purposes, these schools omit and misrepresent Shakespeare's text and thus distort it.

Appropriating Shakespeare Zusammenfassung

Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels Brian Vickers

During the last two decades, new critical schools of Shakespeare scholarship have emerged, each with its own ideology, each convinced that all other approaches are deficient. This controversial book argues that in attempting to appropriate Shakespeare for their own purposes, these schools omit and misrepresent Shakespeare's text-and thus distort it.
Brian Vickers describes the iconoclastic attitudes emerging in French criticism of the 1960s that continue to influence literary theory: that language cannot reliably represent reality; that literature cannot represent life; that since no definitive reading is possible, all interpretation is misinterpretation. Vickers shows that these positions have been refuted, and he brings together work in philosophy, linguistics, and literary theory to rehabilitate language and literature. He then surveys the main conflicting schools in Shakespearean and other current literary criticism-deconstructionism, feminism, new historicism, cultural materialism, and psychoanalytic, Marxist, and Christian interpretations-describing the theoretical basis of each school, both in its own words and in those of its critics. Evaluating the resulting interpretations of Shakespeare, he shows that each is biased and fragmentary in its own way. The epilogue considers two related issues: the attempt of current literary theory to present itself as a coherent system while at the same time wishing to evade accountability; and the way in which different schools demonize their rivals, thus adding an intolerant tone to much recent criticism.

Über Brian Vickers

Brian Vickers is professor of English literature and director of the Centre for Renaissance Studies at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Part One: Critical Theories 1 The Diminution of Language: Saussure to Derrida 2 Creator and Interpreters Part Two: Critical Practices 3 Deconstruction: Undergoing, Overreaching 4 New Historicism: Disaffected Subjects 5 Psychocriticism: Finding the Fault 6 Feminist Stereotypes: Misogyny, Patriachy, Bombast 7 Christians and Marxists: Allegory, Ideology Epilogue: Masters and Demons.

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GOR001338951
9780300061055
0300061056
Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels Brian Vickers
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Yale University Press
19940910
525
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