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Zusatztext 'If there were a version of Desert Island Discs for literary criticism! this book would top the list of things I would want with me to read again and again for its clarity of purpose! its generosity of spirit! the brilliance of its insights! and its ability to engage seamlessly and resonantly with current scholarship! contemporary politics! historical dynamics! and the meanings of Shakespeare.' - Lena Cowen Orlin! University of Maryland! USA! and Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America'Alan Sinfield has been one of the most thoughtful and provocative writers on early modern culture for the last two decades and his critical power is evident throughout this book.' - Kate McLuskie! Director of the Shakespeare Institute! Stratford-upon-Avon! UK'Those familiar with Sinfield's previous work will need no encouragement to read the book! and newcomers will find it an excellent introduction.' - The British Theatre Guide Informationen zum Autor Alan Sinfield Klappentext This reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, has been written by one of the founding figures of this critical movement. It will produce new challenges for the field of Renaissance Studies. Zusammenfassung This reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, has been written by one of the founding figures of this critical movement. It will produce new challenges for the field of Renaissance Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Unfinished Business: Problems in Cultural Materialism 2. Pastoral, As You Like It , and the Ideology of Literary History 3. Poetaster , The Author, and the Perils of Cultural Production 4. How to Read The Merchant Of Venice Without Being Heterosexist 5. Cultural Materialism And Intertextuality: The Limits of Queer Reading in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Two Noble Kinsmen 6. Effeminacy, Friendship and the Hero in Marlowe and Shakespeare 7. Near Misses: Ganymedes and Pageboys 8. Sex and the Lyric: Sidney, Barnfield, Marlowe 9. What Happens in Shakespeare’s Sonnets 10. Rape and Rights: Measure For Measure and the Limits of Cultural Imperialism 11. Unfinished Business: Reprise Bibliography Index ...
