Shakespeare and MarxOUP Oxford, 30.09.2004 г. - 176 страници Marxist cultural theory underlies much teaching and research in university departments of literature and has played a crucial role in the development of recent theoretical work. Feminism, New Historicism, cultural materialism, postcolonial theory, and queer theory all draw upon ideas about cultural production which can be traced to Marx, and significantly each also has a special relation with Renaissance literary studies. This book explores the past and continuing influence of Marx's ideas in work on Shakespeare. Marx's ideas about cultural production and its relation to economic production are clearly explained, together with the standard terminology and concepts such as base/superstructure, ideology, commodity fetishism, alienation, and reification. The influence of Marx's ideas on the theory and practice of Shakespeare criticism and performance is traced from the Victorian age to the present day. The continuing importance of these ideas is illustrated via new Marxist readings of King Lear, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, The Comedy of Errors, All's Well that Ends Well, and The Winter's Tale. |
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... human Xesh) that capitalism disavowed in replacing the market in human Xesh with a market in its derivative, labour. In The Merchant of Venice Introduction 3.
... human Xesh) that capitalism disavowed in replacing the market in human Xesh with a market in its derivative, labour. In The Merchant of Venice Introduction 3.
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... human individuality, and this is at the heart of the lesson Helen teaches Bertram. My reading of The Comedy of Errors focuses on subjectivity—how we know who we are—from a Marxist perspective that insists that our sense of ourselves ...
... human individuality, and this is at the heart of the lesson Helen teaches Bertram. My reading of The Comedy of Errors focuses on subjectivity—how we know who we are—from a Marxist perspective that insists that our sense of ourselves ...
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... human minds. Memetics provides a materialist way of thinking about the relationship between ideas and reality. In the subtle and complex relationship between genetic and memetic imperatives, language and literature Xourish as mental ...
... human minds. Memetics provides a materialist way of thinking about the relationship between ideas and reality. In the subtle and complex relationship between genetic and memetic imperatives, language and literature Xourish as mental ...
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... human beings are free to think anything without constraint and the ultra-Materialists who insist that all thought is causally dependent upon physical processes. Marx has long been thought to be near the ultra-Materialist end of the ...
... human beings are free to think anything without constraint and the ultra-Materialists who insist that all thought is causally dependent upon physical processes. Marx has long been thought to be near the ultra-Materialist end of the ...
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... human activity: the underlying economic structure. In the preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859), Marx ex- plained his move from philosophy to economic matters as a consequence of becoming editor of the ...
... human activity: the underlying economic structure. In the preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859), Marx ex- plained his move from philosophy to economic matters as a consequence of becoming editor of the ...
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2 Marxs Influence on Shakespeare Studies to 1968 | 46 |
3 Marxs Influence on Shakespeare Studies since 1968 | 69 |
4 Shakespeare and Marx Today | 98 |
Marx and Genetics | 138 |
Further Reading | 150 |
Works Cited | 153 |
Index | 163 |
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