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Material Type: | Document |
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Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
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Ewan Fernie |
ISBN: | 9780203625491 0203625498 9780415319669 0415319668 |
OCLC Number: | 1117819397 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | List of Contributors General editor's preface Acknowledgements Foreword: Of hyper-reality John D. Caputo Introduction: Shakespeare, spirituality and contemporary criticism Ewan Fernie 1. 'Where hope is coldest': All's Well that Ends Well Kiernan Ryan 2. Harry's (in)human face David Ruiter 3. Waiting for Gobbo Lowell Gallagher 4. 'Salving the mail': perjury, grace and the disorder of things in Love's Labour's Lost Philippa Berry 5. The Shakespearean fetish Lisa Freinkel 6. Bottom's secret John J. Joughin 7. Spectres of Hamlet Richard Kearney 8. The last act: presentism, spirituality and the politics of Hamlet Ewan Fernie Afterword Jonathan Dollimore Bibliography Index |
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"This volume offers advanced students a helpful survey of contemporary thinking about spiritual otherness in Shakespeare, while experienced readres will find in it provocative avenues for debate." -- Christopher Baker, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Renaissance Quarterly"Spiritual Shakespeare is an incredible collection that displays lively theoretical openings, refreshing religious heterodoxy, and jaw-dropping conceptual leaps of faith. It offers literary or religious scholars, at either the graduate or the professorial levels, a spirited display of critical interpretive ingenuity and an unwavering respect for Shakespeare's spiritual relevance for our present world." -- V. Blue Lemay, Indiana University, Religion and the Arts 'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in secular materialism, theology, or contemporary theory. That at least is what the present collection sets out so suggestively to show.' - John D. Caputo (from the foreword)'Readers will find here an engagement with both Shakespeare and spirituality which is intelligent, original, and challengingly optimistic, one which surely succeeds in its wish to "reinvigorate and strengthen politically progressive materialist criticism".' - Jonathan Dollimore (from the afterword) 'Fernie has done a very good job in bringing together a provocative and intelligent set of essays. Spiritual Shakespeares offers a fresh and edgy perspective on the critically hot topic of religion ... [it] deserves attention not only from scholars and critics interested in Shakespeare and theory or in Shakespeare and religion, but also from professional readers looking for new approaches to Shakespeare's works.' - Graham Hammill, University of Notre Dame Read more...

