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Author : David Schalkwyk
Release : 2018-01-25
Genre : Drama
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 230/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare, Love and Language by : David Schalkwyk
Download or read book Shakespeare, Love and Language written by David Schalkwyk. This book was released on 2018-01-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive study of the concept of love in Shakespeare's work, exploring historical contexts, theory and philosophy of love.
Author : David Schalkwyk
Release : 2018-01-25
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 122/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare, Love and Language by : David Schalkwyk
Download or read book Shakespeare, Love and Language written by David Schalkwyk. This book was released on 2018-01-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the nature of romantic love and erotic desire in Shakespeare's work? In this erudite and yet accessible study, David Schalkwyk addresses this question by exploring the historical contexts, theory and philosophy of love. Close readings of Shakespeare's plays and poems are delivered through the lens of historical texts from Plato to Montaigne, and modern writers including Jacques Lacan, Jean-Luc Marion, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Derrida, Alain Badiou and Stanley Cavell. Through these studies, it is argued that Shakespeare has no single or overarching concept of love, and that in Shakespeare's work, love is not an emotion. Rather, it is a form of action and disposition, to be expressed and negotiated linguistically.
Author : Frank Kermode
Release : 2001-08
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 741/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Language by : Frank Kermode
Download or read book Shakespeare's Language written by Frank Kermode. This book was released on 2001-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magnum opus, Britain's most distinguished scholar of 16th-century and 17th-century literature restores Shakespeare's poetic language to its rightful primacy.
Author : David Schalkwyk
Release : 2012-11-29
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 654/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare, Love and Service by : David Schalkwyk
Download or read book Shakespeare, Love and Service written by David Schalkwyk. This book was released on 2012-11-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Laslett's comment, in The World We Have Lost, that in the early modern period 'every relationship could be seen as a love-relationship' presents the governing idea of this book. In an analysis that includes Shakespeare's sonnets and a wide range of his plays from The Comedy of Errors to The Winter's Tale, David Schalkwyk looks at the ways in which the personal, affective relations of love are informed by the social, structural interactions of service. Showing that service is not a 'class' concept, but rather determined the fundamental conditions of identity across the whole society, the book explores the inter-penetration of structure and effect in relationships as varied as monarch and subject, aristocrat and personal servant, master and slave, husband and wife, and lover and beloved, in the light of differences of rank, gender and sexual identity.
Author : Russ McDonald
Release : 2001
Genre : English language
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 719/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Arts of Language by : Russ McDonald
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Arts of Language written by Russ McDonald. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Russ McDonald... offers an initiation into Shakespeares English.... Like a good musician leading us beyond merely humming the tunes, he helps us hear Shakespearean unclarity, revealing just how expression in late Shakespeare sometimes transcends ordinary verbal meaning.... particularly recommendable.' -Ruth Morse, Times Literary Supplement 'Oxford University Press offer a mix of engagingly written introductions to a variety of Topics intended largely for undergraduates. Each author has clearly been reading and listening to the most recent scholarship, but they wear their learning lightly.' -Ruth Morse, Times Literary SupplementOxford Shakespeare Topics (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research. For the modern reader or playgoer, English as Shakespeare used it - especially in verse drama - can seem alien. Shakespeare and the Arts of Language offers practical help with linguistic and poetic obstacles. Written in a lucid, nontechnical style, the book defines Shakespeare's artistic tools, including imagery, rhetoric, and wordplay, and illustrates their effects. Throughout, the reader is encouraged to find delight in the physical properties of the words: their colour, weight, and texture, the appeal of verbal patterns, and the irresistible affective power of intensified language.
