Unphenomenal Shakespeare

Pending Critical Quarrels
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-52661-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 232, 630 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1184 g

Reihe: Costerus New Series

In the aftermath of New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, the field of Shakespeare Studies has been increasingly overrun by post-theoretical, phenomenological claims. Many of the critical tendencies that hold the field today—post-humanism, speculative realism, ecocriticism, historical phenomenology, new materialism, performance studies, animal studies, affect studies—are consciously or unwittingly informed by phenomenological assumptions. This book aims at uncovering and examining these claims, not only to assess their philosophical congruency but also to determine their hermeneutic relevance when applied to Shakespeare. More specifically, Unphenomenal Shakespeare deploys resources of speculative critique to resist the moralistic and aestheticist phenomenalization of the Shakespeare playtexts across a variety of schools and scholars, a tendency best epitomized in Bruce Smith’s Phenomenal Shakespeare (2010).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jiménez Heffernan, Julián

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Über Autor(innen)

Julián Jiménez Heffernan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Córdoba. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Bologna with a dissertation on Giordano Bruno and is currently working on a book about Henry James.