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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... religious turn' in recent thought and to the spiritualised politics of terrorism and the 'War on Terror'. Opening a genuinely new perspective within Shakespeare Studies, this volume suggests that experiencing the spiritual intensities ...
... , 1564–1616 – Religion. 2. Spiritual life in literature. 3. Spirituality in literature. I. 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)
... Religion and Textures of Renaissance Knowledge. John D. Caputo is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities at Syracuse University. His most recent books include Augustine and Postmodernism: Confessions and Circumfession ...
... religion, ethics and literary figuration in Shakespeare and in early modern English Catholic cultures. He is currently completing a book on the ethical provocation mounted by the biblical figure of Lot's wife in patristic and early ...
... religious turn.” They proceed from the premise that literature does not illustrate preestablished philosophical principles but can instruct philosophy about matters too concrete and singular for philosophy's purview. So if, as Peter ...