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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Página 11
... value on the literary works they are discussing , a point I will return to later . Indeed , many of them clearly believe that their critical studies of these works ( and the studies produced by their colleagues ) are more inter- esting ...
... value on the literary works they are discussing , a point I will return to later . Indeed , many of them clearly believe that their critical studies of these works ( and the studies produced by their colleagues ) are more inter- esting ...
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... value in their own right . This brings me , finally , to my own critical approach to literature and , specifically , to Shakespeare's plays , because it does attempt to show that these plays possess a lasting value or appeal in their ...
... value in their own right . This brings me , finally , to my own critical approach to literature and , specifically , to Shakespeare's plays , because it does attempt to show that these plays possess a lasting value or appeal in their ...
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... value them for producing it , because that points to one of the most important differences between the formalist approach and most of the newer approaches to Shakespeare . I said earlier that it is possible to traverse long expanses of ...
... value them for producing it , because that points to one of the most important differences between the formalist approach and most of the newer approaches to Shakespeare . I said earlier that it is possible to traverse long expanses of ...
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... value of the play that ac- counts for the admiration it has elicited . The formalist approach , therefore , fits their assumptions and expectations , 13 and I have even heard a few of the practitioners of the new approaches admit that ...
... value of the play that ac- counts for the admiration it has elicited . The formalist approach , therefore , fits their assumptions and expectations , 13 and I have even heard a few of the practitioners of the new approaches admit that ...
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... value of his plays . There is no reason , however , why teachers should not use other ap- proaches to Shakespeare in their undergraduate ( or graduate ) courses if they prefer them . In fact , I would strongly defend their right to do ...
... value of his plays . There is no reason , however , why teachers should not use other ap- proaches to Shakespeare in their undergraduate ( or graduate ) courses if they prefer them . In fact , I would strongly defend their right to do ...
Contenido
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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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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.