Author : João Cezar de Castro Rocha
Release : 2019-04-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 586/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Shakespearean Cultures by : João Cezar de Castro Rocha

Download or read book Shakespearean Cultures written by João Cezar de Castro Rocha. This book was released on 2019-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shakespearean Cultures, René Girard’s ideas on violence and the sacred inform an innovative analysis of contemporary Latin America. Castro Rocha proposes a new theoretical framework based upon the “poetics of emulation” and offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding the asymmetries of the modern world. Shakespearean cultures are those whose self-perception originates in the gaze of a hegemonic Other. The poetics of emulation is a strategy developed in situations of asymmetrical power relations. This strategy encompasses an array of procedures employed by artists, intellectuals, and writers situated at the less-favored side of such exchanges, whether they be cultural, political, or economic in nature. The framework developed in this book yields thought-provoking readings of canonical authors such as William Shakespeare, Gustave Flaubert, and Joseph Conrad. At the same time, it favors the insertion of Latin American authors into the comparative scope of world literature, and stages an unprecedented dialogue among European, North American, and Latin American readers of René Girard’s work.