Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical EssaysJames Schiffer Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays is the essential Sonnets anthology for our time. This important collection focuses exclusively on contemporary criticism of the Sonnets, reprinting three highly influential essays from the past decade and including sixteen original analyses by leading scholars in the field. The contributors' diverse approaches range from the new historicism to the new bibliography, from formalism to feminism, from reception theory to cultural materialism, and from biographical criticism to queer theory. In addition, James Schiffer's introduction offers a comprehensive survey of 400 years of criticism of these fascinating, enigmatic poems. |
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Critical Essays James Schiffer. In most instances , essays have been reprinted in their entirety , not butchered into ... This section , which ultimately provides a the- atre history of the play , should not be regarded as different from or ...
Critical Essays James Schiffer. In most instances , essays have been reprinted in their entirety , not butchered into ... This section , which ultimately provides a the- atre history of the play , should not be regarded as different from or ...
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... in the essays that follow , I think it is fair to say that the spirits of Booth , Sedgwick , and Fineman inhabit these pages . The 1990s have been a time of ... this one . For this project I have relied on the kindness of xiv Preface.
... in the essays that follow , I think it is fair to say that the spirits of Booth , Sedgwick , and Fineman inhabit these pages . The 1990s have been a time of ... this one . For this project I have relied on the kindness of xiv Preface.
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Critical Essays James Schiffer. For this project I have relied on the kindness of both friends and strangers . First of all , I wish to express a tremendous debt to my nineteen authors for their excellent work and for their discipline in ...
Critical Essays James Schiffer. For this project I have relied on the kindness of both friends and strangers . First of all , I wish to express a tremendous debt to my nineteen authors for their excellent work and for their discipline in ...
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Critical Essays James Schiffer. Those who accept Shakespeare's authorship base their opinion on the following evidence : ( 1 ) obviously , Shakespeare's name on the title page ( with the implication of authorship in the title Shake ...
Critical Essays James Schiffer. Those who accept Shakespeare's authorship base their opinion on the following evidence : ( 1 ) obviously , Shakespeare's name on the title page ( with the implication of authorship in the title Shake ...
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Critical Essays James Schiffer. for ease of reference . In recent years , the order has been supported by John ... this volume , however , Heather Dubrow questions both the authority and order of the Quarto , as well as Malone's division ...
Critical Essays James Schiffer. for ease of reference . In recent years , the order has been supported by John ... this volume , however , Heather Dubrow questions both the authority and order of the Quarto , as well as Malone's division ...
Contents
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Shakespeares Sonnets and the Economy | 63 |
Sodomy Reproduction and Signification | 68 |
The Sexing of Shakespeares | 75 |
The Scandal of Shakespeares Sonnets 1994 | 89 |
The Politics | 113 |
The Silent Speech of Shakespeares Sonnets 1998 | 135 |
Shakespeares Petrarchism | 163 |
Whats the Use? Or The Problematic of Economy | 263 |
Texts and Contexts | 285 |
Shakespeares Sonnets | 305 |
The Reproduction of Coercion and Blot | 325 |
Shakespeares Sonnets and Early | 347 |
Shakespeares Dark Lady as | 369 |
Reconsidering The Portrait of Mr W | 391 |
On the Sexual Politics | 411 |
Lars Engle | 185 |
Storing Loss in the Sonnets | 199 |
Politics Heresy and Martyrdom in Shakespeares Sonnet 124 | 219 |
Christian Figurality and Shakespeares | 241 |
Valerie Traub | 431 |
Shakespeares Sonnets and | 455 |
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