Shakespeare and the Question of Culture: Early Modern Literature and the Cultural Turn

ISBN-13: 9780312294380 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 279 str.

Douglas Bruster

Opis

Shakespeare and the Question of Culture addresses the central issue of "culture" in early modern studies through both literary history and disciplinary critique. Bruster argues that the "culture" that critics investigate through the works of Shakespeare and other writers is largely a literary culture, and he examines what this necessary limitation of the scope of "cultural studies" means for the discipline of early modern studies.

Recenzje

'...a strikingly intelligent, comprehensive and occasionally contentious analysis of the current state of play in early modern literary studies, its history, and the paths open to critics in the future.' - Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Preface Introduction: Shakespeare and the Question of Culture Early Modern Literary Culture From Literature to Culture and Back Again Print Culture and Aggression in Late Elizabethan England Literary Culture and "Lesbian" Eroticism in Early Modern Drama The Dramatic Life of Objects in the Early Modern Theater Critical Culture Early Modern News Shakespeare and the End of History: Period as Brand Name The New Materialism The New Formalism Conclusion: Shakespeare after the 'Cultural Turn'

O autorze

DOUGLAS BRUSTER teaches at The University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare, Quoting Shakespeare, and textual editor of The Changeling for The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton.