The Modernist Shakespeare: Critical Texts in a Material World - Couverture rigide

Grady, Hugh

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198122225 ISBN 13 : 9780198122227

Editeur : Clarendon Press, 1991

Synopsis

Every epoch recreates its classic icons - and for literary culture, none is more central nor more protean than Shakespeare. Even though finding the "authentic" Shakespeare has been a goal of scholarship since the eighteenth century, Shakespeare has always been constructed as a contemporary author. This book charts the construction of Shakespeare as a twentieth-century Modernist text. By deploying a materialist analysis that recognizes the importance of formal, aesthetic categories for literary criticism this theoretically informed case study shows how Shakespeare was re-written through re-reading. It describes the removal of literary criticism from the public sphere into the professionalized academy and the subsequent migration of culture into the academy where it co-exists uneasily with professionalist positivism. These interactions resulted in the Modernist Shakespeare of G. Wilson Knight, E. M. W. Tillyard, and American and British New Critics and still conditions the post-modernist Shakespeare output of contemporary feminists, deconstructors, and new historicists.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is a major study of the history of Shakespeare criticism in the modern era. Every epoch recreates its classic icons - and for literary culture none is more central nor more protean than Shakespeare. Even though finding the authentic Shakespeare has been a goal of scholarship since the eighteenth century, he has always been constructed as a contemporary author. Hugh Grady charts the construction of Shakespeare as a twentieth-century Modernist text by redirecting 'new historicist' methods to an investigation of the social roots of contemporary Shakespeare crticism itself. Beginning with the formation of professionalism as an ideology in the Victorian age, this much praised study describes the widespread attempts to save the values of the culturalist tradition, in reformulated 'Modernist' guise, from the threat of professionalist positivism in modernized universites. The tension between professionalism and culturalism gave rise to the Modernist Shakespeare of G. Wilson Knight, E. M. W. Tillyard, and American and British New Critics, and still conditions the postmodernist Shakespearean criticism of contemporary feminists, deconstrcutros, and 'new historicists'. From reviews of the hardback: 'I enjoyed every word of The Modernist Shakespeare . . . The arguments it provokes are important ones, and it compels a rethinking of many critical assumptions in broader fields than just Shakespearian criticism.' Notes and Queries 'a fluently meticulous history that comprehensively succeeds in justifying the three working assumptions Grady identifies . . . carefully nuanced, and theoretically incisive' Review of English Studies

Revue de presse

the arguments it provokes are important ones (Notes and Queries)

a fluently meticulous history ... carefully nuanced, and theoretically incisive (Review of English Studies)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Clarendon Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198122225
• ISBN 13: 9780198122227
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; Italie