Gothic ShakespearesJohn Drakakis, Dale Townshend Routledge, 01/12/2008 - 261 páginas Readings of Shakespeare were both influenced by and influential in the rise of Gothic forms in literature and culture from the late eighteenth century onwards. Shakespeare’s plays are full of ghosts, suspense, fear-inducing moments and cultural anxieties which many writers in the Gothic mode have since emulated, adapted and appropriated. The contributors to this volume consider:
In Gothic Shakespeares, Shakespeare is considered alongside major Gothic texts and writers – from Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis and Mary Shelley, up to and including contemporary Gothic fiction and horror film. This volume offers a highly original and truly provocative account of Gothic reformulations of Shakespeare, and Shakespeare’s significance to the Gothic. Contributors include: Fred Botting, Elizabeth Bronfen, Glennis Byron, Sue Chaplin, Steven Craig, John Drakakis, Michael Gamer, Jerrold Hogle, Peter Hutchings, Robert Miles, Dale Townshend, Scott Wilson and Angela Wright. |
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... Imagination. Heisthe author ofThe Ordersof Gothic: Foucault, Lacan, and the Subject of GothicWriting, 1764–1820 (2007), as well as a number ofessays and chapters on criticaltheory and late eighteenthcentury Gothic writing. He has also ...
... Imagination and supervising Doctoral students in the Department of English Studies at the University of Stirling. What began asa naïveobservation ofthehigh levels of Shakespearean quotation and allusion in Gothic writing gradually ...
... of romance,the ancientand the modern' (Walpole 1968:43).Here the'modern' additionto 'ancient' romance consisted inthe damning upof 'imagination and improbability' by the imitation of 'nature' that involves 'a strict.
... imagination' that 'dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in order to recreate', in short to vitalize (Coleridge 1951: 263) what mayhave been an actual historical event. Subsequent quotation, however, providesalanguage forthe filtering andthe ...
... Imagination(1989), Jonathan Bate, citingHorace Walpole and John Hollander, proposesa weak Freudian readingofthe difference betweenquotationand allusion (Bate 1989a: 31–32). He genuflects towardsliterary theory with the claim that 'a ...