2007, ISBN: 0300119283

[EAN: 9780300119282], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.0], [PU: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press], Jacket, XI, 428 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time ed… More...

[EAN: 9780300119282], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.0], [PU: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press], Jacket, XI, 428 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed jacket and binding, otherwise very good and clean. Includes reviews of book. / Leicht beriebener Umschlag und Einband, sonst sehr gut und sauber. Beiligend Rezensionen zum Buch. - A. D. Nuttall’s study of Shakespeare’s intellectual preoccupations is a literary tour de force and comes to crown the career of a distinguished Shakespeare scholar. Certain questions engross Shakespeare from his early plays to the late romances: the nature of motive, cause, personal identity and relation, the proper status of imagination, ethics and subjectivity, language and its capacity to occlude and to communicate. Yet Shakespeare’s thought, Nuttall demonstrates, is anything but static. The plays keep returning to, modifying, and complicating the playwright’s preoccupations. Nuttall allows us to hear and appreciate the emergent cathedral choir of play speaking to play. By the later stages of Nuttall’s book this choir is nearly overwhelming in its power and dimensions. The author does not limit discussion to moments of crucial intellection but gives himself ample space in which to get at the distinctive essence of each work. Shakespeare the Thinker serves, then, as a wonderful introduction to Shakespeare’s plays. Much recent historicist criticism has tended to "flatten" Shakespeare by confining him to the thought-cliches of his time, and this in its turn has led to an implicitly patronizing view of him as unthinkingly racist, sexist, and so on. Nuttall shows us that, on the contrary, Shakespeare proves again and again to be more intelligent and perceptive than his twenty-first-century readers. This book challenges us to reconsider the relation of great literature to its social and historical matrix. It is also, perhaps, the best guide to Shakespeare’s plays available in English. - A. D. Nuttall was professor of English at Oxford University and the author of numerous books, including A Common Sky: Philosophy and the Literary Imagination and Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure? His books Two Concepts of Allegory and A New Mimesis: Shakespeare and the Representation of Reality are published by Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300119282 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 765 Original hardcover with dust jacket., Books<

2007, ISBN: 9780300119282

XI, 428 p. Original hardcover with dust jacket. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Sligh… More...

XI, 428 p. Original hardcover with dust jacket. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed jacket and binding, otherwise very good and clean. Includes reviews of book. / Leicht beriebener Umschlag und Einband, sonst sehr gut und sauber. Beiligend Rezensionen zum Buch. - A. D. Nuttalls study of Shakespeares intellectual preoccupations is a literary tour de force and comes to crown the career of a distinguished Shakespeare scholar. Certain questions engross Shakespeare from his early plays to the late romances: the nature of motive, cause, personal identity and relation, the proper status of imagination, ethics and subjectivity, language and its capacity to occlude and to communicate. Yet Shakespeares thought, Nuttall demonstrates, is anything but static. The plays keep returning to, modifying, and complicating the playwrights preoccupations. Nuttall allows us to hear and appreciate the emergent cathedral choir of play speaking to play. By the later stages of Nuttalls book this choir is nearly overwhelming in its power and dimensions. The author does not limit discussion to moments of crucial intellection but gives himself ample space in which to get at the distinctive essence of each work. Shakespeare the Thinker serves, then, as a wonderful introduction to Shakespeares plays. Much recent historicist criticism has tended to flatten Shakespeare by confining him to the thought-cliches of his time, and this in its turn has led to an implicitly patronizing view of him as unthinkingly racist, sexist, and so on. Nuttall shows us that, on the contrary, Shakespeare proves again and again to be more intelligent and perceptive than his twenty-first-century readers. This book challenges us to reconsider the relation of great literature to its social and historical matrix. It is also, perhaps, the best guide to Shakespeares plays available in English. - A. D. Nuttall was professor of English at Oxford University and the author of numerous books, including A Common Sky: Philosophy and the Literary Imagination and Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure? His books Two Concepts of Allegory and A New Mimesis: Shakespeare and the Representation of Reality are published by Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300119282 Versand D: 4,50 EUR , [PU:New Haven ; London : Yale University Press,]<

2007, ISBN: 9780300119282

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