The life in the sonnets / David Fuller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuller, David, 1947-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Shakespeare now!

Shakespeare now

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnets.

Shakespeare, William.

Sonnets, English--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Sonnets, English.

Physical Description:

xiii, 118 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2011]

Summary:

Literary criticism ignores the ways in which literary experiences relate to life experience, and the ways in which literary experiences can be intensified and deepened. In this book, David Fuller seeks to recover the life in Shakespeare's sonnets, arguing that, although feeling and emotion are often ignored in criticism, they should be central to literary experience. He offers two ways of attempting this. First he engages with the poems through the kinds of feeling that are fundamental to the young man sequence as these are presented in other kinds of writing and art. He then discusses how reading the poems aloud can offer one of the best ways of fully participating in property engaged reading, showing that dwelling on the words allows us to bring out their beauty and expressivity, and ultimately to come to fuller understandings of their form, structure, and meaning.

A complete recording of the sonnets, read by David Fuller, is available at www.continuumbooks.com/resources/9781847064547. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction 15

Plato, Symposium and Phaedrus 21

Michelangelo, Poems and Drawings 28

Thomas Mann and Death in Venice 40

Benjamin Britten, Death in Venice 51

Derek Jarman, The Angelic Conversation 59

Dwelling in the Words: reading the Sonnets Aloud 75

Coda 107.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [111]-115) and index.

ISBN:

9781847064547

184706454X

9781847064530

1847064531

OCLC:

647977609