Shakespeare and the Truth-Teller
Confronting the Cynic Ideal
Seiten
2019
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3957-2 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3957-2 (ISBN)
Highlighting the necessity of literary thinking to political philosophy, this book explores Shakespeare's responses to sixteenth-century debates over the revolutionary potential of Cynic critical activity.
Examines the early modern reception of classical Cynicism and the rise of literary realism
Promotes a new understanding of the intersection between literary character and ethical character, especially with respect to literature's role in facilitating belief in the revolutionary potential of individual critical agency
Deploys the reception history of Diogenes the Cynic as a methodological point of contact between historicist and presentist approaches to Shakespeare
Draws new interdisciplinary connections between Shakespeare studies, literary theory, critical theory, and political philosophy
Includes novel readings of King Lear, Hamlet, and Timon of Athens as well as other early modern texts and a number of major works of modern philosophy and political theory
Highlighting the necessity of literary thinking to political philosophy, this book explores Shakespeare's responses to sixteenth-century debates over the revolutionary potential of Cynic critical activity - debates that persist in later centuries and inform major developments in Western intellectual history. Analysing cynic characterisations of Lear's Fool, Hamlet and Timon of Athens, Hershinow presents new ways of thinking about modernity's engagement with classical models and literature's engagement with politics.
Examines the early modern reception of classical Cynicism and the rise of literary realism
Promotes a new understanding of the intersection between literary character and ethical character, especially with respect to literature's role in facilitating belief in the revolutionary potential of individual critical agency
Deploys the reception history of Diogenes the Cynic as a methodological point of contact between historicist and presentist approaches to Shakespeare
Draws new interdisciplinary connections between Shakespeare studies, literary theory, critical theory, and political philosophy
Includes novel readings of King Lear, Hamlet, and Timon of Athens as well as other early modern texts and a number of major works of modern philosophy and political theory
Highlighting the necessity of literary thinking to political philosophy, this book explores Shakespeare's responses to sixteenth-century debates over the revolutionary potential of Cynic critical activity - debates that persist in later centuries and inform major developments in Western intellectual history. Analysing cynic characterisations of Lear's Fool, Hamlet and Timon of Athens, Hershinow presents new ways of thinking about modernity's engagement with classical models and literature's engagement with politics.
David Hershinow is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY.
Erscheinungsdatum | 05.02.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy |
Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4744-3957-8 / 1474439578 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-3957-2 / 9781474439572 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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