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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... theology, or contemporary theory. That at least is what the present collection sets out so suggestively to show. John D. Caputo (from the Foreword) Readers will find here an engagement with both Shakespeare and spirituality which is ...
... Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets and articles on subjects ranging from Reformation iconoclasm, to Dante's Inferno, to formalism in Kant's Critique of Judgment. Her current project, The Use of Shakespeare, examines the ...
... theological. There are only as many little pragmatic truths (Nietzsche called them “fictions”) as are required for the complexities of life. Secularism's monopoly is as dead as God's, allowing many flowers to bloom. If God is dead, a ...
... theology or contemporary theory. That at least is what the present collection sets out so suggestively to show. Introduction Shakespeare, spirituality and contemporary criticism Ewan Fernie DOI: 10.4324/9780203625491-1.
... theology. Although it draws liberally from history, the volume offers a primarily 'presentist' engagement with its topic.2 It is a book that treats Shakespeare as a 'living thinker', one whose dramatic explorations of spirituality can ...
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 | |