Heffernan Shakespeare’s Extremes

Wild Man, Monster, Beast
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-52358-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 246 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave Literature Collection

Shakespeare's Extremes is a controversial intervention in current critical debates on the status of the human in Shakespeare's work. By focusing on three flagrant cases of human exorbitance - Edgar, Caliban and Julius Caesar - this book seeks to limn out the domain of the human proper in Shakespeare.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heffernan, Julián Jiménez

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Note on texts
Introduction: A Sentimental Paradox
1. Body
2. Wild Man
3. Monster
4. Beast
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Julián Jiménez Heffernan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Córdoba, Spain. His research interests include literary theory, modern fiction, and Renaissance culture. He is the co-editor of Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction and has published articles in journals like Comparative Literature, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Textual Practice and Contemporary Literature.