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Political aesthetics in the era of Shakespeare / edited by Christopher Pye.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Rethinking the Early Modern
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Political and social views.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Political and social views.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Aesthetics.
- Aesthetics.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Aesthetics--Political aspects.
- Politics and literature--Great Britain--History.
- Politics and literature.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2020.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The turn to political concerns in Renaissance studies, beginning in the 1980s, was dictated by forms of cultural materialism that staked their claims against the aesthetic dimension of the work. Recently, however, the more robustly political conception of the aesthetic formulated by theorists such as Theodor Adorno and Jacques Rancière has revitalized literary analysis generally and early modern studies in particular. For these theorists, aesthetics forms the crucial link between politics and the most fundamental phenomenological organization of the world, what Rancière terms the "distribution of the sensible." Taking up this expansive conception of aesthetics, Political Aesthetics in the Era of Shakespeare suggests that the political stakes of the literary work--and Shakespeare's work in particular--extend from the most intimate dimensions of affective response to the problem of the grounds of political society. The approaches to aesthetic thought included in this volume explore the intersections between the literary work and the full range of concerns animating the field today: political philosophy, affect theory, and ecocritical analysis of environs and habitus.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Early Modern Political Aesthetics / Christopher Pye
- Part One : An Early Modern Aesthetic
- "No Toy But Was Her Pattern" : Renaissance Friendship and the Rise of Aesthetics in The Two Noble Kinsmen / Andrew Sisson
- "No Cause, No Cause" : King Lear and the Space of the World / Christopher Pye
- Thomas Rymer, Poetic Justice, and the Limits of Representation : Dispatches from the Representative Regime of Art / Russ Leo
- Part Two : Aesthetics and the Politics of the Representable
- Shakespeare and the Plebs / Tracey Sedinger
- Timon's Hunger in the Forest: Toward a Political Aesthetics of Being beside Oneself / Joan Pong Linton
- From Political Theology to Political Aesthetics in A Midsummer Night's Dream / Jennifer R. Rust
- "Need Makes Good Schollers": Spenser and the Poverty of Aesthetics / Joel M. Dodson
- Part Three: Island Voices
- "I . . . Will Cry It O'er Again" : Virgil, The Tempest, and the Aesthetics of Imitation / Lydia C. Heinrichs
- The Political, the Aesthetic, and the Utopian in The Tempest: A Shakespearean Dialectic Unfolded / Hugh Grady
- "A Diversity of Sounds, All Horrible" : The Political Aesthetics of Soundscapes in The Tempest / Colby Gordon
- Shakespeare's Sturm, Caliban's Drang : Walter Benjamin and The Tempest / Julia Reinhard Lupton
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780810142190
- 0810142198
- Publisher Number:
- 99984798688
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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