Notorious Identity: Materializing the Subject in Shakespeare (First Edition)

Linda Charnes

ISBN 10: 0674627806 / ISBN 13: 9780674627802

Editore: Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), 1993

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• Titolo: Notorious Identity: Materializing the Subject in Shakespeare (First Edition)
• Editore: Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass.)
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0674627806
• ISBN 13: 9780674627802
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: New
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: New
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Shakespeare

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Richard III, Troilus and Cressida, Antony and Cleopatra--these were figures of intense signification long before Shakespeare took up the task of giving them new life on the stage. And when he did, Linda Charnes argues, he used these legendary figures to explore a new kind of fame--notorious identity--an infamy based not on the moral and ethical "use value" of legend but on a commodification of identity itself: one that must be understood in the context of early modern England's emergent capitalism and its conditions of economic, textual, theatrical, and cultural reproduction. Ranging across cultural materialism, new historicism, feminist psychoanalysis, cultural anthropology, deconstruction, and theories of postmodernity, the author practices a "theory without organs"--which she provocatively calls a constructive "New Hystericism"--retheorizing the discourses of reigning methodologies as much as those in Shakespeare's plays.

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