Schoenfeldt A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7200-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 536 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

This Companion represents the myriad ways of thinking aboutthe remarkable achievement of Shakespeare's sonnets.
* An authoritative reference guide and extended introduction toShakespeare's sonnets.
* Contains more than 20 newly-commissioned essays by bothestablished and younger scholars.
* Considers the form, sequence, content, literary context,editing and printing of the sonnets.
* Shows how the sonnets provide a mirror in which cultures canread their own critical biases.
* Informed by the latest theoretical, cultural and archivalwork.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schoenfeldt, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction 1
PART I Sonnet Form and Sonnet Sequence 13
1 The Value of the Sonnets 15
Stephen Booth
2 Formal Pleasure in the Sonnets 27
Helen Vendler
3 The Incomplete Narrative of Shakespeare's Sonnets45
James Schiffer
4 Revolution in Shake-speares Sonnets 57
Margreta de Grazia
PART II Shakespeare and His Predecessors 71
5 The Refusal to be Judged in Petrarch and Shakespeare 73
Richard Strier
6 "Dressing old words new"? Re-evaluating the"Delian Structure" 90
Heather Dubrow
7 Confounded by Winter: Speeding Time in Shakespeare'sSonnets 104
Dympna Callaghan
PART III Editorial Theory and Biographical Inquiry: Editingthe Sonnets 119
8 Shake-speares Sonnets, Shakespeare's Sonnets, andShakespearean Biography 121
Richard Dutton
9 Mr. Who He? 137
Stephen Orgel
10 Editing the Sonnets 145
Colin Burrow
11 William Empson and the Sonnets 163
Lars Engle
PART IV The Sonnets in Manuscript and Print 183
12 Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Manuscript Circulation ofTexts in Early Modern England 185
Arthur F. Marotti
13 The Sonnets and Book History 204
Marcy L. North
PART V Models of Desire in the Sonnets 223
14 Shakespeare's Love Objects 225
Douglas Trevor
15 Tender Distance: Latinity and Desire in Shakespeare'sSonnets 242
Bradin Cormack
16 Fickle Glass 261
Rayna Kalas
17 "Th' expense of spirit in a waste ofshame": Mapping the "Emotional Regime" ofShakespeare's Sonnets 277
Jyotsna G. Singh
PART VI Ideas of Darkness in the Sonnets 291
18 Rethinking Shakespeare's Dark Lady 293
Ilona Bell
19 Flesh Colors and Shakespeare's Sonnets 314
Elizabeth D. Harvey
PART VII Memory and Repetition in the Sonnets 329
20 Voicing the Young Man: Memory, Forgetting, and Subjectivityin the Procreation Sonnets 331
Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.
21 "Full character'd": Competing Forms ofMemory in Shakespeare's Sonnets 343
Amanda Watson
PART VIII The Sonnets in/and the Plays 361
22 Halting Sonnets: Poetry and Theater in Much Ado About Nothing363
Patrick Cheney
23 Personal Identity and Vicarious Experience inShakespeare's Sonnets 383
William Flesch
PART IX The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint 403
24 "Making the quadrangle round": Alchemy'sProtean Forms in Shakespeare's sonnets and A Lover'sComplaint 405
Margaret Healy
25 The Enigma of A Lover's Complaint 426
Catherine Bates
Appendix: The 1609 Text of Shakespeare's Sonnets and ALover's Complaint 441
Index 502

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Schoenfeldt is Professor of English Literature at the University of Michigan and Director of the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. He is the author of Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton (1999), Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship (1991), and co-editor of Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton (2003).