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Shakespeare and posthumanist theory / Karen Raber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raber, Karen, 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Humanism in literature.
- Philosophical anthropology in literature.
- Human body (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : The Arden Shakespeare, [2020]
- Summary:
- Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory charts challenges in the field of Shakespeare studies to the assumption that the category "human" is real, stable, or worthy of privileging in discussions of the playwright's work. Drawing on a variety of methodologies - cognitive theory, systems theory, animal studies, ecostudies, the new materialisms - the volume investigates the world of Shakespeare's plays and poems in order to represent more thoroughly its variety, its ethics of inclusion, and its resistance to human triumphalism and exceptionalism. Karen Raber, a leading scholar in the field, clearly and cogently guides the reader through complex theoretical terrain, providing fresh, exciting readings of plays including Othello , The Tempest , Titus Andronicus , Troilus and Cressida and Henry IV Part 1 .
- Contents:
- We have never been humanist: genealogies of posthumanism
- Posthuman cosmography
- Bodies and minds
- Neither fish nor fowl
- Technobard
- Post-posthumanism? back to the future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781474234450
- 1474234453
- 9781474234467
- 1474234461
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