Looking for an Argument: Critical Encounters with the New Approaches to the Criticism of Shakespeare and His ContemporariesFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2003 - 309 էջ 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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... important aspects of the new approaches to the interpretation of the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries — principally the New Historicism , feminism , and several revisionist versions of Marxism and Freudianism . These ...
... important aspects of the new approaches to the interpretation of the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries — principally the New Historicism , feminism , and several revisionist versions of Marxism and Freudianism . These ...
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... important lessons from them . One of the most important was a " strong " pluralism — a recognition that there are a number of funda- mentally different philosophical or intellectual perspectives that generate quite different approaches ...
... important lessons from them . One of the most important was a " strong " pluralism — a recognition that there are a number of funda- mentally different philosophical or intellectual perspectives that generate quite different approaches ...
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... important than the discipline of liter- ary studies that is supposed to be interdisciplinated with them.5 Since Renaissance history is by far the most common subject matter that is employed in this interdisciplinary criticism of ...
... important than the discipline of liter- ary studies that is supposed to be interdisciplinated with them.5 Since Renaissance history is by far the most common subject matter that is employed in this interdisciplinary criticism of ...
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... important than the literature . We must be very careful , however , not to overstate or oversimplify this issue . I know that some people would like to separate studies that use the history of this period to illuminate its litera- ture ...
... important than the literature . We must be very careful , however , not to overstate or oversimplify this issue . I know that some people would like to separate studies that use the history of this period to illuminate its litera- ture ...
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... important qualifica- tions . When I say that their value or appeal is lasting , this does not mean that it is universal and that the plays can be appreciated by all people in all cultures , which is obviously false . In our world there ...
... important qualifica- tions . When I say that their value or appeal is lasting , this does not mean that it is universal and that the plays can be appreciated by all people in all cultures , which is obviously false . In our world there ...
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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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Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.