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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... politics and literature , although Marx frequently represented his ideas as scientific discoveries rather than components of a political morality . For Marx , capitalism was doomed to a finite lifespan because of its inherent ...
... politics and literature , although Marx frequently represented his ideas as scientific discoveries rather than components of a political morality . For Marx , capitalism was doomed to a finite lifespan because of its inherent ...
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... political sentiment , and asserted that no one could have thought otherwise in Shakespeare's time . Arguing ad hominem , and treating the Elizabethan mind - set as essentially closed to ideas whose time had not come , Shaw displayed a ...
... political sentiment , and asserted that no one could have thought otherwise in Shakespeare's time . Arguing ad hominem , and treating the Elizabethan mind - set as essentially closed to ideas whose time had not come , Shaw displayed a ...
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... political issues , Tillyard effectively mapped what Marxists mean by ideology , and the strongly negative reaction to Tillyardism in the 1980s was a disagreement about what exactly that Elizabethan ideology consisted of especially ...
... political issues , Tillyard effectively mapped what Marxists mean by ideology , and the strongly negative reaction to Tillyardism in the 1980s was a disagreement about what exactly that Elizabethan ideology consisted of especially ...
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... political outlook . In the Conclusion I return to the dilemmas of the base / superstruc- ture model of determination and liken them to a persistent dilemma in the physical sciences concerning genetic and environmental determin- ation ...
... political outlook . In the Conclusion I return to the dilemmas of the base / superstruc- ture model of determination and liken them to a persistent dilemma in the physical sciences concerning genetic and environmental determin- ation ...
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... political ideas ) in a collective of 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 ...
... political ideas ) in a collective of 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 ...
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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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