Spiritual ShakespearesEwan Fernie Spiritual Shakespeares is the first book to explore the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current world events. Ewan Fernie has brought together an exciting cast of critics in order to respond to the ‘religious turn’ in recent literary theory and to the spiritualized politics of terrorism and the ‘War on Terror’. Exploring a genuinely new perspective within Shakespeare Studies, the volume suggests that experiencing the spiritual intensities of the plays could lead us back to dramatic intensity as such. It tests spirituality from a political perspective, as well as subjecting politics to an unusual spiritual critique. Amongst its controversial and provocative arguments is the idea that a consideration of spirituality might point the way forward for materialist criticism. Reaching across and beyond literary studies to offer challenging and powerful contributions from leading scholars, this book offers unique readings of some very familiar plays. |
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... Fernie, Ewan, 1971–. II. Series. PR3011.S65 2005 822.3'3-dc22 2005004410 ISBN 978-0-415-31966-9 (hbk) ISBN 978-0-415-31967-6 (pbk) DOI: 10.4324/9780203625491 And what impossibility would slay In common sense, sense saves.
Ewan Fernie. And what impossibility would slay In common sense, sense saves another way. (All's Well That Ends Well) No settled senses of the world can match The pleasures of that madness. (The Winter's Tale) Contents List of contributors ...
... sense. They will, it is hoped, offer a platform for the work of the liveliest younger scholars and teachers at their most outspoken and provocative. Committed and contentious, they will be reporting from the forefront of current ...
... sense, even as totalizing omniexplanations have lost their cachet. Our world is what James Joyce called a “chaosmos” (see Eco 1989), neither simple cosmos nor simple chaos, but a complex loosely joined and supple configuration given to ...
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Contents
Alls Well That Ends Well | |
Harrys inhuman face | |
Waiting for Gobbo | |
Salving the mail Perjury grace and the disorder of things in Loves Labours | |
The Shakespearean fetish | |