Shakespeare and Literary Theory by Jonathan Gil Harris

Shakespeare and Literary Theory by Jonathan Gil Harris

Discussing the work of Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Helene Cixous, Shakespeare and Literary Theory argues that literary theory is less an external set of ideas anachronistically imposed on Shakespeare's texts than a mode - or several modes - of critical reflection inspired by, and emerging from, his writing.

Gil Harris provides an essential, concise, reference work for Shakespearian libraries* Chris Butler, Years Work in English Studies *
This book serves a contemporary need by providing accessible introductions to theory, while simultaneously whetting the appetite for more theoretically inflected discussions of Shakespeare * Graham Holderness, Times Literary Supplement *

Jonathan Gil Harris is Professor of English at George Washington University. He is the author of Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 1998), Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism and Disease in Shakespeare's England (U Penn P, 2004), and Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare (U Penn P 2008). He is also the editor of Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama (co-edited with Natasha Koarda, Cambridge 2002) and Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday (New Mermaids, 2008). Professor Harris serves as associate editor of Shakespeare Quarterly.

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ISBN 13	9780199573387
ISBN 10	0199573387
Title	Shakespeare and Literary Theory
Author	Jonathan Gil Harris
Series	Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2010-08-19
Number of pages	240
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