Tatlow / Fish / Jameson Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8089-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 308 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

Examines Asian staging of Western canonical theater, particularly Shakespeare’s plays, arguing that intercultural performance questions the settled assumptions we bring to our interpretations of familiar texts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tatlow, Antony

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Prologue

1. Reading the Intercultural: Cultures of Reading

2. Intercultural Signs: Textual Anthropology

3. Desire, Laughter, and the Social Unconscious

4. Historicizing the Unconscious in Plautine and Shakespearean Farce

5. Coriolanus and the Historical Text

6. Macbeth in Kunju Opera

Epilogue

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Antony Tatlow was Professor and Head of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong for many years before assuming his current position as Professor of Comparative Literature and Coordinator of the Graduate Centre for Arts Research at the University of Dublin. His previous books include The Mask of Evil: Brecht’s Response to the Poetry, Theatre, and Thought of China and Japan.