Twelfth Night

Contemporary Critical Essays

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

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This volume presents a wide range of recent critical essays exemplifying different approaches to Shakespeare's work in general and Twelfth Night in particular. Essays are written from positions of new historicism, deconstruction, feminism, Marxism, reader response, and others. The introduction, written especially for the volume, makes accessible to students at all levels the diversity of the contemporary study of Shakespeare and its wider importance.

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Utgivningsdatum1996-10-25
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt318 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Casebooks
Antal sidor221
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780333606773

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R. S. White is Australian Professorial Fellow, Emeritus Winthrop Professor of English at The University of Western Australia, and Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 1100-1800. Among his other books are Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature (1996), Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s (2008), Pacifism in English Poetry: Minstrels of Peace (2008) and John Keats: A Literary Life (2010) which has been reissued in paperback. He is a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association and a Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy.

AcknowledgementsGeneral Editors' PrefaceIntroduction; R.S.WhiteShakespeare's Poetical Character in Twelfth Night; G.H.HartmanTwelfth Night: 'The Morality of Indulgence'; E.KriegerThe Festive Agon: The Politics of Carnival; M.D.BristolPower on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres; L.TennenhouseFiction and Friction; S.Greenblatt'And All is Semblative a Woman's Part': Body Politics and Twelfth Night; D.Callaghan'What you Will': Social Mobility and Gender in Twelfth Night; C.MalcolmsonOr What You Will; B.EverettFurther ReadingNotes on ContributorsIndex.