The sonnets the state of play
"Shakespeare's Sonnets both generate and demonstrate many of today's most pressing debates about Shakespeare and poetry. They explore history and aesthetics, gender and society, time and memory, and continue to invite divergent responses from critics and poets. This freeze-frame volum...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi, Sydney
Bloomsbury
2018
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| Schriftenreihe: | The Arden Shakespeare state of play series
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Shakespeare's Sonnets both generate and demonstrate many of today's most pressing debates about Shakespeare and poetry. They explore history and aesthetics, gender and society, time and memory, and continue to invite divergent responses from critics and poets. This freeze-frame volume showcases the range of current debate and ideas surrounding these still startling poems. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to the needs of students, teachers, and researchers. Key themes and topics covered include: Textual issues and editing the sonnets Reception, interpretation and critical history of the sonnets The place of the sonnets in teaching Critical approaches and close reading Memorialisation and monument-making Contemporary poetry and the Sonnets All the essays offer new perspectives and combine to give readers an up-to-date understanding of what is exciting and challenging about Shakespeare's Sonnets. The approach, based on an individual poetic form, reflects how the sonnets are most commonly studied and taught"-- Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction; -- 2. 'Injurious Time': Proleptic Loss and Conditional Ruin in Shakespeare's Sonnets; -- 3. Shakespeare's Sonnets as Event; -- 4. 'Desire is Pattern': Shakespeare's Sonnets, Sequence, and the History of Meaning; -- 5. 'Our brains beguiled': Ecclesiastes and Temporal Discontinuity in Sonnet 59; 6. 'TO.THE.ONLY.BEGETTER. Mr. W. [S.]'; -- 7. 'Love is not love': Teaching Poetic Ambiguity through Shakespeare's Sonnets -- 8. The scar on the face: Ted Hughes, his late wife and Shakespeare's Sonnets; -- 9. Re-gifting Some Sonnets of Late; -- 10. Infinite Finitude: Living and Dying in the Sonnets; -- 11. Unfulfilled Imperatives in Shakespeare's Sonnets; -- 12. Promising Eternity in the 1609 Quarto; -- 13. A lingering farewell: Sonnet 87; -- 14. Afterword -- Notes; -- Index |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xv, 288 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781350094857 978-1-350-09485-7 |