Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 442 g
Reihe: Oxford English Monographs
A New World of Words
Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 442 g
Reihe: Oxford English Monographs
ISBN: 978-0-19-818689-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Shakespeare's late plays are usually seen in terms of courtliness and escapism. But the critical tradition has been too decorous. Neither neo-Christian pieties nor high-political allegory can account for the works' audacity and surprise, or the popular investment in both their form and meaning. Post-structuralist and historicist approaches show the indeterminacy and materiality of language, but rarely identify how particular figures (words and characters) capture and
energize contested history. Recent criticism tends to put a pre-emptive 'master-paradigm' above all else; a more sinuous, minutely attentive critical vocabulary is needed to apprehend Shakespeare's turbulent, precise, teeming metaphorical discourse.