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Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in The Merchant of Venice - Couverture rigide

Adelman, Janet

 
9780226006819: Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in The Merchant of Venice
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ISBN 10 : 0226006816 ISBN 13 : 9780226006819
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2008

Synopsis

In Blood Relations, Janet Adelman confronts her resistance to The Merchant of Venice as both a critic and a Jew. With her distinctive psychological acumen, she argues that Shakespeare's play frames the uneasy relationship between Christian and Jew specifically in familial terms in order to recapitulate the vexed familial relationship between Christianity and Judaism.

Adelman locates the promise--or threat--of Jewish conversion as a particular site of tension in the play. Drawing on a variety of cultural materials, she demonstrates that, despite the triumph of its Christians, The Merchant of Venice reflects Christian anxiety and guilt about its simultaneous dependence on and disavowal of Judaism. In this startling psycho-theological analysis, both the insistence that Shylock's daughter Jessica remain racially bound to her father after her conversion and the depiction of Shylock as a bloody-minded monster are understood as antidotes to Christian uneasiness about a Judaism it can neither own nor disown.

In taking seriously the religious discourse of The Merchant of Venice, Adelman offers in Blood Relations an indispensable book on the play and on the fascinating question of Jews and Judaism in Renaissance England and beyond.

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À propos de l'auteur

Janet Adelman (1941-2010) was professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Twentieth-Century Interpretations of "King Lear", The Common Liar: An Essay on "Antony and Cleopatra," and Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare, "Hamlet" to "The Tempest."

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226006816
ISBN 13 
9780226006819
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
224
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The University of Chicago Press
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