Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism

di Alan Sinfield (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2006

Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality is a powerful reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, by one of the founding figures of this critical movement. Alan Sinfield examines cultural materialism both as a body of ongoing argument and as it informs particular works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, especially in relation to sexuality in early-modern England and queer theory. The book has several interlocking preoccupations: theories of textuality and reading the political location of Shakespearean plays and the organisation of literary culture today the operation of state power in the early-modern period and the scope for dissidence the sex/gender system in that period and the application of queer theory in history. These preoccupations are explored in and around a range of works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Throughout the book Sinfield re-presents cultural materialism, framing it not as a set of propositions, as has often been done, but as a cluster of unresolved problems. His brilliant, lucid and committed readings demonstrate that the ‘unfinished business’ of cultural materialism - and Sinfield’s work in particular - will long continue to produce new questions and challenges for the fields of Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies.

• Autore: Alan Sinfield
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Accents on Shakespeare
• Anno: 2006
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 238 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 138 mm
• Peso: 440 gr.
• EAN: 9780415402361

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