Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical EssaysJames Schiffer Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays is the essential Sonnets anthology for our time. This important collection focuses exclusively on contemporary criticism of the Sonnets, reprinting three highly influential essays from the past decade and including sixteen original analyses by leading scholars in the field. The contributors' diverse approaches range from the new historicism to the new bibliography, from formalism to feminism, from reception theory to cultural materialism, and from biographical criticism to queer theory. In addition, James Schiffer's introduction offers a comprehensive survey of 400 years of criticism of these fascinating, enigmatic poems. |
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... the play or poem from a multiplicity of perspectives , including feminist , Marxist , new historical , semiotic , mythic , performance / staging , cultural , and / or a com- bination of these and other methodologies . Some volumes in the ...
... the play or poem from a multiplicity of perspectives , including feminist , Marxist , new historical , semiotic , mythic , performance / staging , cultural , and / or a com- bination of these and other methodologies . Some volumes in the ...
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... from the usual content for volumes in the Garland Shakespeare Criticism series . Unlike most of the other volumes in the series , this one does not have a section for essays and reviews devoted to performance issues . Furthermore , this ...
... from the usual content for volumes in the Garland Shakespeare Criticism series . Unlike most of the other volumes in the series , this one does not have a section for essays and reviews devoted to performance issues . Furthermore , this ...
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... from the many times they are cited in the essays that follow , I think it is fair to say that the spirits of Booth , Sedgwick , and Fineman inhabit these pages . The 1990s have been a time of important new investigation of Shakespeare's ...
... from the many times they are cited in the essays that follow , I think it is fair to say that the spirits of Booth , Sedgwick , and Fineman inhabit these pages . The 1990s have been a time of important new investigation of Shakespeare's ...
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... at the World Congress ) . I would also like to thank Stephen Greenblatt , Dorothea Kehler , Katherine Eisaman Maus , Marianne Novy , Clark Hulse , and Linda Boose for suggesting the names of scholars I might invite to contribute . Bruce ...
... at the World Congress ) . I would also like to thank Stephen Greenblatt , Dorothea Kehler , Katherine Eisaman Maus , Marianne Novy , Clark Hulse , and Linda Boose for suggesting the names of scholars I might invite to contribute . Bruce ...
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... At Hampden - Sydney College , I owe thanks to many . The Professional Development Committee approved two summer research grants and a year's sabbatical in 1997-1998 to work on this project , and I received funds as well from the William ...
... At Hampden - Sydney College , I owe thanks to many . The Professional Development Committee approved two summer research grants and a year's sabbatical in 1997-1998 to work on this project , and I received funds as well from the William ...
Contents
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Shakespeares Sonnets and the Economy | 63 |
Sodomy Reproduction and Signification | 68 |
The Sexing of Shakespeares | 75 |
The Scandal of Shakespeares Sonnets 1994 | 89 |
The Politics | 113 |
The Silent Speech of Shakespeares Sonnets 1998 | 135 |
Shakespeares Petrarchism | 163 |
Whats the Use? Or The Problematic of Economy | 263 |
Texts and Contexts | 285 |
Shakespeares Sonnets | 305 |
The Reproduction of Coercion and Blot | 325 |
Shakespeares Sonnets and Early | 347 |
Shakespeares Dark Lady as | 369 |
Reconsidering The Portrait of Mr W | 391 |
On the Sexual Politics | 411 |
Lars Engle | 185 |
Storing Loss in the Sonnets | 199 |
Politics Heresy and Martyrdom in Shakespeares Sonnet 124 | 219 |
Christian Figurality and Shakespeares | 241 |
Valerie Traub | 431 |
Shakespeares Sonnets and | 455 |
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