Looking for an argument : critical encounters with the new approaches to the criticism of Shakespeare and his contemporaries / Richard Levin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levin, Richard, 1922-2009.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation--History--20th century.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism and interpretation.

History.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English drama.

Physical Description:

309 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, N.J. : Associated University Presses, [2003]

Contents:

Concerning the Text 25

1. Feminist Thematics and Shakespearean Tragedy 29

A response from Janet Adelman et al. 49

2. The Poetics and Politics of Bardicide 55

Response from Daniel Boyarin 73

Response from Margot FitzGerald 77

3. Unthinkable Thoughts in the New Historicizing of English Renaissance Drama 82

A response from Jonathan Goldberg 94

4. (Re)Thinking Unthinkable Thoughts 104

5. Bashing the Bourgeois Subject 114

With It's a Panic 122

6. Son of Bashing the Bourgeois Subject 124

7. Negative Evidence 131

8. The New Interdisciplinarity in Literary Criticism 152

9. The New and the Old Historicizing of Shakespeare 177

10. The Cultural Materialist Attack on Artistic Unity 195

11. Silence Is Consent, or Curse Ye Meroz! 210

12. The Politicized Language of Literary Criticism 227

13. The Current Polarization of Literary Studies 244.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-299) and indexes.

ISBN:

083863964X

OCLC:

50982333