The Tempest and New World-Utopian Politics

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism, British
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Author: F. Brevik ISBN: 9781137021809
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US Publication: August 6, 2012
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author: F. Brevik
ISBN: 9781137021809
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication: August 6, 2012
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

This study on New World-utopian politics in The Tempest traces paradigm shifts in literary criticism over the past six decades that have all but reinscribed the text into a political document. This book challenges the view that the play has a dominant New World dimension and demonstrates through close textual readings how an unstable setting at the same time enables and effaces discursively over-invested New World interpretations. Almost no critical attention has been paid to the play's vacuum of power, and this work interprets pastoral, utopian, and 'American' tensions in light of the play's forever-ambiguous setting as well as through a 'presentist' post-1989 lens, an oft-neglected historical and political paradigm shift in Shakespeare criticism.

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This study on New World-utopian politics in The Tempest traces paradigm shifts in literary criticism over the past six decades that have all but reinscribed the text into a political document. This book challenges the view that the play has a dominant New World dimension and demonstrates through close textual readings how an unstable setting at the same time enables and effaces discursively over-invested New World interpretations. Almost no critical attention has been paid to the play's vacuum of power, and this work interprets pastoral, utopian, and 'American' tensions in light of the play's forever-ambiguous setting as well as through a 'presentist' post-1989 lens, an oft-neglected historical and political paradigm shift in Shakespeare criticism.

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