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| Named Person: | John Maynard Keynes; Karl Marx; William Shakespeare; John Maynard Keynes; Karl Marx; William Shakespeare; Karl Marx; William Shakespeare; John Maynard Keynes; Marx, 1818-1883; Keynes, 1883-1946; Shakespeare, 1564-1616; William Shakespeare; Karl Marx; John Maynard Keynes |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Martin Harries |
| ISBN: | 0804736219 9780804736213 |
| OCLC Number: | 231865800 |
| Description: | VIII, 209 Seiten |
| Contents: | Introduction Part I. Phantasmagoria: 1. Henry Dircks, inventor of Pepper's Ghost; 2. Carlyle and the impossibility of reenchantment; 3. Spiritualism and the Dircksian phantasmagoria; 4. Homo Alludens: Marx's eighteenth Brumaire; 5. From magic to Marx; 6. Smells like world spirit: allusion, revision, farce; 7. Ghosts in The German Ideology and the Eighteenth Brumaire; 8. Translations of the Mole; 9. Ghosts and contradiction; 10. The ghost of Hamlet in the mine; 11. Mining terms in Hamlet; 12. Replication; 13. 'Shakespearized', or back to the Brumaire; Part II. Witchcraft and History: 14. John Maynard Keynes and reenchantment; 15. Productivity, productivity, productivity; 16. Quotation and haunted spheres of Influence; 17. Keynes' Macbeth; 18.The fantasy of deferred history; 18. Macbeth, scare quotes and supernatural history; 19. James and the 'horrid space' of witchcraft; 20. Seeds, second nature, camouflage; 21. The last scare quote; 22. Conclusion; 23. Ends of the scare quote; 23. Last words on witchcraft. |
| Responsibility: | Martin Harries. |
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"Even as a study of Shakespearean textuality in Marx and Keynes, this is an inventive and significant book. But it aims at more than that. Harries also employs Marx's and Keynes's 'readings' of Shakespeare as entryways into Hamlet and Macbeth, leading to original analyses of both plays. He offers a fascinating cultural history of phantasmagoria in nineteenth-century theater and culture, and he engages in a wide-ranging philosophical investigation of how the capitalist economy 'reenchants' our supposedly secularized modernity." -- Richard Halpern * University of Colorado * "The whole thing is accomplished with much style, and turns and returns with great poise and ever-compounding intricacy; meanwhile its calculating audacities offer themselves in a winning and unembarrassed way." -- <I>The Wordsworth Circle</I> ". . . . Martin Harries has produced a fascinating, detailed, and dense argument, whose twists and turns themselves betray the continued existence of the principle of the 'Scare quote' as he defines the genre." -- <I>Shakespeare Studies</I> "His reading of the scene in which Hamlet encounters the ghost is spectacular. Bringing together the language of mining with that of military conflict, coinage, and wealth-generation, this part of Harries' book shows him at his best. His linguistic assiduousness meets his awareness of the play's central themes and its cultural context in a manner that both illuminates the play and reinforces his claim that 'it is precisely Hamlet's figuring a modernity inextricably linked to ghostly injuctions that makes the play so telling an icon of modernity.'" -- <I>Ariel: A Review of International English Literature.</I> Read more...
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- Keynes, John Maynard, -- 1883-1946.
- Marx, Karl, -- 1818-1883.
- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Influence.
- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616.
- Marx, Karl -- Quellen und Vorbilder.
- Shakespeare, William -- Rezeption -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
- Keynes, John Maynard -- Quellen und Vorbilder.
- Marx -- 1818-1883
- Keynes -- 1883-1946
- Shakespeare -- 1564-1616 -- Influence
- Shakespeare, William -- 1564-1616
- Marx, Karl -- 1818-1883
- Keynes, John Maynard -- 1883-1946
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Shakespeare, William -- Marx, Karl
- Shakespeare, William -- Keynes, John Maynard
