The Tempest and New World-Utopian Politics

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism, British
Cover of the book The Tempest and New World-Utopian Politics by F. Brevik, Palgrave Macmillan US
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from Palgrave Macmillan US

Cover of the book People’s Response to Disasters in the Philippines by F. Brevik
Cover of the book The Education of the Filmmaker in Europe, Australia, and Asia by F. Brevik
Cover of the book Ethics and Literature in Chile, Argentina, and Paraguay, 1970-2000 by F. Brevik
Cover of the book Israel’s Asymmetric Wars by F. Brevik
Cover of the book Rumi and Shams’ Silent Rebellion by F. Brevik
Cover of the book The Australia-ASEAN Dialogue by F. Brevik
Cover of the book Players in the Public Policy Process by F. Brevik
Cover of the book The Creation and Re-Creation of Cardenio by F. Brevik
Cover of the book Fairy Tale Queens by F. Brevik
Cover of the book An Ethnography of Stress by F. Brevik
Cover of the book Martin Luther King Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement by F. Brevik
Cover of the book Confronting Corruption, Building Accountability by F. Brevik
Cover of the book Communal Labor in Colonial Kenya by F. Brevik
Cover of the book Collective Action for Social Change by F. Brevik
Cover of the book Entertaining Children by F. Brevik
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy