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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... truth is that nobody can just pick up Shakespeare's plays and read them. Perhaps (even more worrying) they never could. The aim of Accents on Shakespeare is to encourage students and teachers to explore the implications of this ...
... Truth, be it scientific or 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 ...
... truth is that by and large contemporary theory is turned toward the affirmation of the “Other.” This is the very opposite of selfishness or fantasy. Derrida's discontent with realism arises not from anti-realist motives but from hyper ...
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