Faultlines: Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Dissident Reading - Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Dissident Reading

Zusatztext `massively engulfing analysis ... It's exhilirating to meet such a buoyantly confident insistence on texts in real history' Informationen zum Autor A leading literary critic, Alan Sinfield's most recent publication is Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain (Blackwell, 1989). He is co-editor with Jonathan Dollimore (author of Sexual Dissidence [OUP, 1991]) of the highly influential Political Shakespeare (MUP, 1985). Klappentext A controversial, lucid, and timely book which uses agile and often provocative discussions of key texts from the early modern period to reassess the scope of dissidence and control in relation to the state, gender and sexualities, religion, and cultural production - both in Shakespeare's time and in the professional structures of humanities today.By a leading exponent of cultural materialism Zusammenfassung A controversial, lucid, and timely book which uses agile and often provocative discussions of key texts from the early modern period to reassess the scope of dissidence and control in relation to the state, gender and sexualities, religion, and cultural production - both in Shakespeare's time and in the professional structures of humanities today.

Product details

• Authors: Sinfield, Alan Sinfield, Alan (Professor of English Sinfield, Sinfield Alan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.09.1992
• EAN: 9780198119951
• ISBN: 978-0-19-811995-1
• No. of pages: 378
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity