TEXTUAL PRACTICE (ebook)

Otros libros del autor

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  METAPHOR

  TERENCE HAWKES

  First published in 1972, this work examines the complex concept of metaphor. It defines the term by placing the various key ideas about the nature of metaphor in their literary and social context, and in doing so, it traces the developing history of the concept. This account has considerable range, beginning with Aristotle and ending with the work of modern linguist and anthrop...

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  ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: SHAKESPEARE'S TALKING ANIMALS (1973)

  TERENCE HAWKES

  First published in 1973, this book is about Shakespeare, language and drama. The first part introduces some common ideas of anthropology and linguistics into an area where they serve as a base for the discussion of usually literary matters. It attempts to link language to our experience of speech — examining its range, texture, and social functions. In part two, the author argu...

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  SHAKESPEARE AND THE REASON

  TERENCE HAWKES

  'Mr Hawkes is a good critic, oriented towards history of ideas. He operates on the formula that Shakespeare was interested in the available distinctions between discursive and intuitive reason, and disliked a growing tendency for the first to be thought of as manly and the second effeminate. One sees how this action-contemplation polarity works, in Hamlet for instance, and Mr H...

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  THAT SHAKESPEHERIAN RAG

  TERENCE HAWKES

  First published in 1986.This collection of essays focuses on the ways in which our society 'processes' Shakespeare and the purposes for which this seems to be done. The case is made by examining the work of four highly influential critics: A C Bradley, Walter Raleigh, T S Eliot and John Dover Wilson.Terence Hawkes asks whether, beyond the readings to which the plays may be subj...

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  ALTERNATIVE SHAKESPEARES

  TERENCE HAWKES

  Alternative Shakespeares, published in 1985, shook up the world of Shakespearean studies, demythologising Shakespeare and applying new theories to the study of his work. Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 investigates Shakespearean criticism over a decade later, introducing new debates and new theorists into the frame. Both established scholars and new names appear here, provid...

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  SHAKESPEARE IN THE PRESENT

  TERENCE HAWKES

  Shakespeare in the Present is a stunning collection of essays by Terence Hawkes, which engage with, explain, and explore 'presentism'. Presentism is a critical manoeuvre which uses relevant aspects of the contemporary as a crucial trigger for its investigations. It deliberately begins with the material present and lets that set the interrogative agenda. This book suggests ways ...

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