Author: Richard Dutton File Type: pdf This four-volume Companion to Shakespeares Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. ullBrings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. llExamines each of Shakespeares plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. llVolumes are organized in relation to generic categories namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems. llEach volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre. llOffers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.lulThis companion to Shakespeares comedies contains original essays on every comedy from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Twelfth Night as well as twelve additional articles on such topics as the humoral body in Shakespearean comedy, Shakespeares comedies on film, Shakespeares relation to other comic writers of his time, Shakespeares cross-dressing comedies, and the geographies of Shakespearean comedy.ReviewWhether for the student wishing for an overview of critical approaches or anxious to fill in the gaps in his Shakespearean culture, for those wishing to catch up on the diversity of literary theories, or for the inquisitive browser, this set of volumes assuredly charts the map of current criticism. Cahiers ElisabethainsBook DescriptionThis four-volume Companion to Shakespeares Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.Complementing David Scott Kastans A Companion to Shakespeare (1999), which focused on Shakespeare as an author in his historical context, these volumes examine each of his plays and major poems using all the resources of contemporary criticism from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analyses.Scholars from all over the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and United States - have joined in the writing of new essays addressing virtually the whole of Shakespeares canon from a rich variety of critical perspectives. A mixture of younger and more established scholars, their work reflects some of the most interesting research currently being conducted in Shakespeare studies.Arguing for the persistence and utility of genre as a rubric for teaching and writing about Shakespeares works, the editors have organized the four volumes in relation to generic categories namely, the tragedies, the histories, the comedies, and the poems, problem comedies and late plays. Each volume thus contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre.This ambitious project offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twentieth-first century.This companion to Shakespeares comedies contains original essays on every comedy from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Twelfth Night. In addition, the volume features twelve articles on such topics as the humoral body in Shakespearean comedy, Shakespeares comedies on film, Shakespeares relation to other comic writers of his time, Shakespeares cross dressing comedies, and the geographies of Shakespearean comedy.

Author: Istvan Czachesz File Type: pdf Early Christian apocryphal and conical documents present us with grotesque images of the human body, often combining the playful and humorous with the repulsive, and fearful. First to third century Christian literature was shaped by the discourse around and imagery of the human body. This study analyses how the iconography of bodily cruelty and visceral morality was produced and refined from the very start of Christian history. The sources range across Greek comedy, Roman and Jewish demonology, and metamorphosis traditions. The study reveals how these images originated, were adopted, and were shaped to the service of a doctrinally and psychologically persuasive Christian message.

Author: Alex Callinicos File Type: pdf Few thinkers have been declared irrelevant and out of date with such frequency as Karl Marx. Hardly a decade since his death has gone by in which establishment critics have not announced the death of his theory. Whole forests have been felled to produce the paper necessary to fuel this effort to marginalize the coauthor of The Communist Manifesto.And yet, despite their best efforts to bury him again and again, Marxs specter continues to haunt his detractors more than a century after his passing. As another international economic collapse pushes ever growing numbers out of work, and a renewed wave of popular revolt sweeps across the globe, a new generation is learning to ignore all the taboos and scorn piled upon Marxs ideas and rediscovering that the problems he addressed in his time are remarkably similar to those of our own.In this engaging and accessible introduction, Alex Callinicos demonstrates that Marxs ideas hold an enduring relevance for todays activists fighting against poverty, inequality, oppression, environmental destruction, and the numerous other injustices of the capitalist system. Despite their best attempts to declare them dead at every opportunity, establishment critics have failed to relegate Karl Marxs ideas to the dustbin of history. Alex Callinicos argues that Marxs ideas have an enduring relevance and provides an engaging and accessible introduction to one of the Wests most recognizable social critics.br Alex Callinicos is professor of European studies at Kings College London. He has written widely about Marxism and social theory. His most recent books are Social Theory , Equality , Imperialism and Global Political Economy, and Bonfire of Illusion , all published by Polity.

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