Looking for an Argument: Critical Encounters with the New Approaches to the Criticism of Shakespeare and His ContemporariesFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2003 - 309 páginas This book collects a number of Richard Levin's essays, beginning with his well-known PMLA article of 1988 on Feminist Thematics and Shakespearean Tragedy and continuing through the 1990s, that examine and evaluate some of the most important aspects of the new critical approaches to the interpretations of the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries- principally the New Historicism, feminism, and revisionist versions of Marxism and Freudianism. In these essays he is looking not only for rational arguments in these approaches, but also for a rational argument with their practitioners, and therefore he reprints several of the responses that these essays have elicited (including th PMLA Forum letter signed by twenty-four people who objected to Feminist Thematics) along with his answers to them, which contribute to this critique of the present state of the discourse in this field. |
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... kind of orthodoxy . It is the purpose of the essays in this book to raise serious questions about the assumptions and proce- dures of these approaches and therefore about their present dominant status on the critical scene . Although ...
... kind of orthodoxy . It is the purpose of the essays in this book to raise serious questions about the assumptions and proce- dures of these approaches and therefore about their present dominant status on the critical scene . Although ...
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... kind of hegemony and even orthodoxy in our most prestigious literature departments . I cannot think of another neutral term , however , that includes all of them and registers the universal recognition that when they emerged upon the ...
... kind of hegemony and even orthodoxy in our most prestigious literature departments . I cannot think of another neutral term , however , that includes all of them and registers the universal recognition that when they emerged upon the ...
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... kind of unity to this collection is the basic set of attitudes I bring with me as a result of my personal history , which I can feel free to discuss here because the confessional mode is now in fashion in academic criticism . As I wrote ...
... kind of unity to this collection is the basic set of attitudes I bring with me as a result of my personal history , which I can feel free to discuss here because the confessional mode is now in fashion in academic criticism . As I wrote ...
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... kind of argument that I learned to appreci- ate and that I was looking for in the new approaches , which explains the title given to this collection . The essays in this collection show that my attempts to apply these les- sons to the ...
... kind of argument that I learned to appreci- ate and that I was looking for in the new approaches , which explains the title given to this collection . The essays in this collection show that my attempts to apply these les- sons to the ...
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... kind of argument that I was looking for in these responses and hoping to find there , I must confess that I enjoy a good argument ( arguably another Chicago legacy ) , even when I lose , but only if it deals with the ideas involved ...
... kind of argument that I was looking for in these responses and hoping to find there , I must confess that I enjoy a good argument ( arguably another Chicago legacy ) , even when I lose , but only if it deals with the ideas involved ...
Índice
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A LETTER TO THE PMLA FORUM | 49 |
The Poetics and Politics of Bardicide | 55 |
A LETTER TO THE PMLA FORUM | 73 |
ANOTHER LETTER TO THE PMLA FORUM | 77 |
Unthinkable Thoughts in the New Historicizing of English Renaissance Drama | 82 |
Negative Evidence | 131 |
The New Interdisciplinarity in Literary Criticism | 152 |
The New and the Old Historicizing of Shakespeare | 177 |
The Cultural Materialist Attack on Artistic Unity | 195 |
Silence Is Consent or Curse Ye Meroz | 210 |
The Politicized Language of Literary Criticism | 227 |
The Current Polarization of Literary Studies | 244 |
Notes | 259 |
MAKING SENSE | 94 |
ReThinking Unthinkable Thoughts | 104 |
Bashing the Bourgeois Subject | 114 |
ITS A PANIC | 122 |
Son of Bashing the Bourgeois Subject | 124 |
Texts Formerly Works Cited | 281 |
Index of Plays | 300 |
General Index | 302 |
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argue argument asserts assume assumptions attack audience Barker basic believe Belsey bourgeois capitalism cause characters claim concept conflict context contradictions course critical approaches cultural materialists Desdemona discipline discoveries discuss Dollimore earlier Elizabethan essay example explain fact feminist critics formalist formalist/humanist Freudian gender Goldberg Hamlet historical criticism Historicists historicizers human humanist idea ideology interdisciplinarity interpretation Jonathan Dollimore Jonathan Goldberg Kahn kind King Lear Levin liberal literary criticism literary text literature Macbeth Malcolm Evans male Marxists masculine McLuskie meaning Measure for Measure Midsummer Night's Dream negative evidence neo-Freudian never newer critics oppositional oppression Othello patriarchy play play's PMLA polarization political poststructuralist problem prove quoted radical readings Renaissance response says seems sense sexual Shakespeare Shakespearean tragedy silence Sinfield social society status quo thematic thematists theme theory tion topicalists tragedy tragic unity universal Unthinkable Thoughts usually women words
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Página 126 - The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation...
Página 36 - I shall do so; But I must also feel it as a man: I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me.
Página 126 - All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life and his relations with his kind.
Página 87 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
Página 173 - ... a single great collective story; only if, in however disguised and symbolic a form, they are seen as sharing a single fundamental theme - for Marxism, the collective struggle to wrest a realm of Freedom from a realm of Necessity; only if they are grasped as vital episodes in a single vast unfinished plot.
Página 131 - I had, also, during many years followed a golden rule, namely, that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones.
Página 88 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot, the terror of the French, to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times), who, in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...
Página 105 - If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Página 23 - And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.