Posthumanist Shakespeares
Shakespeare scholars and cultural theorists critically investigate the relationship between early modern culture and contemporary political and technological changes concerning the idea of the 'human.' The volume covers the tragedies King Lear and Hamlet in particular, but also provides po...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Edited Volume |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Basingstoke [u.a.]
Palgrave Macmillan
2012
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| Schriftenreihe: | Palgrave Shakespeare studies
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| Online-Zugang: | Aggregator, Volltext: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1016586
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| Verfasserangaben: | ed. by Stefan Herbrechter ... |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Contents; Afterword; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction - Shakespeare ever after; Shakespeare 'after' Shakespeare; Shakespeare 'after' theory; Shakespeare 'after' humanism; Life 'after' Shakespeare; Shakespeare 'after' technology; Shakespeare 'after' the human; We have never been human; The contributions; Works cited; Part I: Reading Shakespeare 'after' Humanism; 1 The Science of the Heart: Shakespeare, Kames and the Eighteenth-Century Invention of the Human; Notes; Works cited
- 2 'a passion so strange, outrageous, and so variable': The Invention of the Inhuman in The Merchant of VeniceWhen did we become posthuman?; Shylock's humanism; The Merchant of Venice: posthumanism and misanthropy; Notes; Works cited; 3 Shakespeare and the Character of Sheep; Notes; Works cited; 4 Homeostasis in Shakespeare; Notes; Works cited; Part II: 'Posthumanist' Readings; 5 Care, Scepticism and Speaking in the Plural: Posthumanisms and Humanisms in King Lear; Notes; Works cited; 6 Cyborg Coriolanus / Monster Body Politic; Notes; Works cited
- 7 Renaissance Self-Unfashioning: Shakespeare's Late Plays as Exercises in Unravelling the HumanIntroduction; Humanism's alterities; Timon of Athens - unravelling humanism's premature success story; Pericles, Prince of Tyre - alien encounters; Working through / with / against humanism from within; Notes; Works cited; 8 Surviving Truth (Measure for Measure); Notes; Works cited; Part III: Hamlet, 'Posthumanist'?; 9 (Post-)Heideggerian Hamlet; Who's there? A thing or nothing?; Untimeliness revisited; From ek-sistence to desistance; Post-scriptum: posthumous, posthuman Hamlet; Notes; Works cited
- 10 Loam, Moles and l'homme: Reversible HamletBecoming Gilles Shakespeare; Touching ground; Between who?; Letters without post: from Chronos to Aion; Imp, impersonal, imp/post/hume; Your rats your rations your rats rations; To M.E.L.T., to T.H.A.W.; Hamlet on a plateau; L'homme into loam; Posts and stops: from Hamlet to Henry Miller; Notes; Works cited; 11 'This?': Posthumanism and the Graveyard Scene in Hamlet; 'The Shakespearean Collection': novelty, posthumanism and death; Truncation, beheading, recognition, (mis)identification: the graveyard scene reread
- Posthumanism and the graveyard scene in HamletNotes; Works cited; 12 Post-Posthumanist Me - An Illiterate Reads Shakespeare; Works cited; Index;