Shakespeare And Appropriation

Author : Christy Desmet,Robert Sawyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134622610

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Shakespeare and Appropriation by Christy Desmet,Robert Sawyer Pdf

The vitality of our culture is still often measured by the status Shakespeare has within it. Contemporary readers and writers continue to exploit Shakespeare's cultural afterlife in a vivid and creative way. This fascinating collection of original essays shows how writers' efforts to imitate, contradict, compete with, and reproduce Shakespeare keep him in the cultural conversation. The essays: * analyze the methods and motives of Shakespearean appropriation * investigate theoretically the return of the repressed author in discussions of Shakespeare's cultural function * put into dialogue theoretical and literary responses to Shakespeare's cultural authority * analyze works ranging from nineteenth century to the present, and genres ranging from poetry and the novel to Disney movies.

Author : Vanessa I. Corredera,L.Monique Pittman,Geoffrey Way
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000855425

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Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation by Vanessa I. Corredera,L.Monique Pittman,Geoffrey Way Pdf

Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation pushes back against two intertwined binaries: the idea that appropriation can only be either theft or gift, and the idea that cultural appropriation should be narrowly defined as an appropriative contest between a hegemonic and marginalized power. In doing so, the contributions to the collection provide tools for thinking about appropriation and cultural appropriation as spectrums constantly evolving and renegotiating between the poles of exploitation and appreciation. This collection argues that the concept of cultural appropriation is one of the most undertheorized yet evocative frameworks for Shakespeare appropriation studies to address the relationships between power, users, and uses of Shakespeare. By robustly theorizing cultural appropriation, this collection offers a foundation for interrogating not just the line between exploitation and appreciation, but also how distinct values, biases, and inequities determine where that line lies. Ultimately, this collection broadly employs cultural appropriation to rethink how Shakespeare studies can redirect attention back to power structures, cultural ownership and identity, and Shakespeare’s imbrication within those networks of power and influence. Throughout the contributions in this collection, which explore twentieth and twenty-first century global appropriations of Shakespeare across modes and genres, the collection uncovers how a deeper exploration of cultural appropriation can reorient the inquiries of Shakespeare adaptation and appropriation studies. This collection will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies, Shakespeare studies, and adaption studies.

Author : Alexa Huang,Elizabeth Rivlin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137375773

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Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation by Alexa Huang,Elizabeth Rivlin Pdf

Making an important new contribution to rapidly expanding fields of study surrounding the adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation is the first book to address the intersection of ethics, aesthetics, authority, and authenticity.

Author : Brian Vickers
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300061056

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Appropriating Shakespeare by Brian Vickers Pdf

During the last two decades, new critical schools of Shakespeare scholarship have emerged, each with its own ideology, each convinced that all other approaches are deficient. This controversial book argues that in attempting to appropriate Shakespeare for their own purposes, these schools omit and misrepresent Shakespeare's text--and thus distort it. Brian Vickers describes the iconoclastic attitudes emerging in French criticism of the 1960s that continue to influence literary theory: that language cannot reliably represent reality; that literature cannot represent life; that since no definitive reading is possible, all interpretation is misinterpretation. Vickers shows that these positions have been refuted, and he brings together work in philosophy, linguistics, and literary theory to rehabilitate language and literature. He then surveys the main conflicting schools in Shakespearean and other current literary criticism--deconstructionism, feminism, new historicism, cultural materialism, and psychoanalytic, Marxist, and Christian interpretations--describing the theoretical basis of each school, both in its own words and in those of its critics. Evaluating the resulting interpretations of Shakespeare, he shows that each is biased and fragmentary in its own way. The epilogue considers two related issues: the attempt of current literary theory to present itself as a coherent system while at the same time wishing to evade accountability; and the way in which different schools "demonize" their rivals, thus adding an intolerant tone to much recent criticism.

Author : Jean I. Marsden
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312071981

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The Appropriation of Shakespeare by Jean I. Marsden Pdf

Author : Sonia Massai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781134345847

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World-Wide Shakespeares by Sonia Massai Pdf

Drawing on debates around the global/local dimensions of cultural production, an international team of contributors explore the appropriation of Shakespeare’s plays in film and performance around the world. In particular, the book examines the ways in which adapters and directors have put Shakespeare into dialogue with local traditions and contexts. The contributors look in turn at ‘local’ Shakespeares for local, national and international audiences, covering a range of English and foreign appropriations that challenge geographical and cultural oppositions between ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’, and ‘big-time’ and ‘small-time’ Shakespeares. Responding to a surge of critical interest in the poetics and politics of appropriation, World-Wide Shakespeares is a valuable resource for those interested in the afterlife of Shakespeare in film and performance globally.

Author : Michele Marrapodi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317056447

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Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance by Michele Marrapodi Pdf

Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance investigates the works of Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists from within the context of the European Renaissance and, more specifically, from within the context of Italian cultural, dramatic, and literary traditions, with reference to the impact and influence of classical, coeval, and contemporary culture. In contrast to previous studies, the critical perspectives pursued in this volume’s tripartite organization take into account a wider European intertextual dimension and, above all, an ideological interpretation of the 'aesthetics' or 'politics' of intertextuality. Contributors perceive the presence of the Italian world in early modern England not as a traditional treasure trove of influence and imitation, but as a potential cultural force, consonant with complex processes of appropriation, transformation, and ideological opposition through a continuous dialectical interchange of compliance and subversion.

Author : Christy Desmet,Sujata Iyengar,Miriam Jacobson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351687522

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The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation by Christy Desmet,Sujata Iyengar,Miriam Jacobson Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation brings together a variety of different voices to examine the ways that Shakespeare has been adapted and appropriated onto stage, screen, page, and a variety of digital formats. The thirty-nine chapters address topics such as trans- and intermedia performances; Shakespearean utopias and dystopias; the ethics of appropriation; and Shakespeare and global justice as guidance on how to approach the teaching of these topics. This collection brings into dialogue three very contemporary and relevant areas: the work of women and minority scholars; scholarship from developing countries; and innovative media renderings of Shakespeare. Each essay is clearly and accessibly written, but also draws on cutting edge research and theory. It includes two alternative table of contents, offering different pathways through the book – one regional, the other by medium – which open the book up to both teaching and research. Offering an overview and history of Shakespearean appropriations, as well as discussing contemporary issues and debates in the field, this book is the ultimate guide to this vibrant topic. It will be of use to anyone researching or studying Shakespeare, adaptation, and global appropriation.

Author : Ailsa Grant Ferguson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135041847

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Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture by Ailsa Grant Ferguson Pdf

Addressing for the first time Shakespeare’s place in counter-cultural cinema, this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic, postmodern, and post-punk Shakespeare in late 20th and early 21st century film. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies, Grant Ferguson presents an interdisciplinary approach that offers new theories on the nature and application of Shakespearean appropriations in the light of postmodern modes of representation. The book considers the nature of the Shakespearean inter-text in subcultural political contexts concerning the politicized aesthetics of a Shakespearean ‘body in pieces,’ the carnivalesque, and notions of Shakespeare as counter-hegemonic weapon or source of empowerment. Representative films use Shakespeare (and his accompanying cultural capital) to challenge notions of capitalist globalization, dominant socio-cultural ideologies, and hegemonic modes of expression. In response to a post-modern culture saturated with logos and semiotic abbreviations, many such films play with the emblematic imagery and references of Shakespeare’s texts. These curious appropriations have much to reveal about the elusive nature of intertextuality in late postmodern culture and the battle for cultural ownership of Shakespeare. As there has yet to be a study that isolates and theorizes modes of Shakespearean production that specifically demonstrate resistance to the social, political, ideological, aesthetic, and cinematic norms of the Western world, this book expands the dialogue around such texts and interprets their patterns of appropriation, adaptation, and representation of Shakespeare.

Author : Darlena Ciraulo,Matthew Kozusko,Robert Sawyer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781683933618

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Performing Shakespearean Appropriations by Darlena Ciraulo,Matthew Kozusko,Robert Sawyer Pdf

This collection of essays brings together innovative scholarship on Shakespeare’s afterlives in tribute to Christy Desmet. Contributors explore the production and consumption of Shakespeare in acts of adaptation and appropriation across a range of performance topics, from book history to the novel to television, cinema, and digital media.

Author : Aleksandŭr Shurbanov,Boika Sokolova
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Communism and literature
ISBN : 0874137268

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Painting Shakespeare Red by Aleksandŭr Shurbanov,Boika Sokolova Pdf

While the focus is predominantly on Bulgaria, its particular experience is considered as representative of the entire Soviet bloc, to which it belonged for four and a half long decades. And its multiple links with partner-countries in this fold are always kept in view."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Valerie M. Fazel,Louise Geddes
Publisher : EUP
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 147448140X

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Variable Objects by Valerie M. Fazel,Louise Geddes Pdf

Drawing on new materialism and object-oriented ontology, Variable Objects proposes that Shakespeare is a vibrant object replete with a variable energy that accounts for its infinite meaning-making capacity.

Author : Valerie M. Fazel,Louise Geddes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319610153

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The Shakespeare User by Valerie M. Fazel,Louise Geddes Pdf

This innovative collection explores uses of Shakespeare in a wide variety of 21st century contexts, including business manuals, non-literary scholarship, database aggregation, social media, gaming, and creative criticism. Essays in this volume demonstrate that users’ critical and creative uses of the dramatist’s works position contemporary issues of race, power, identity, and authority in new networks that redefine Shakespeare and reconceptualize the ways in which he is processed in both scholarly and popular culture. While The Shakespeare User contributes to the burgeoning corpus of critical works on digital and Internet Shakespeares, this volume looks beyond the study of Shakespeare artifacts to the system of use and users that constitute the Shakespeare network. This reticular understanding of Shakespeare use expands scholarly forays into non-academic practices, digital discourse communities, and creative critical works manifest via YouTube, Twitter, blogs, databases, websites, and popular fiction.

Author : Louise Geddes,Kathryn Vomero Santos,Geoffrey Way
Publisher : EUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1399524917

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The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation by Louise Geddes,Kathryn Vomero Santos,Geoffrey Way Pdf

[headline]Redefines the ways in which performance studies and appropriation theory can be used to approach Shakespeare Bringing together the discrete fields of appropriation and performance studies, this collection explores pivotal intersections between the two approaches to consider the ethical implications of decisions made when artists and scholars appropriate Shakespeare. The essays in this book, written by established and emerging scholars in subfields such as premodern critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, performance studies, adaptation/appropriation studies and fan studies, demonstrate how remaking the plays across time, cultures or media changes the nature both of what Shakespeare promises and the expectations of those promised Shakespeare. Using examples such as rap music, popular television, theatre history and twentieth-century poetry, this collection argues that understanding Shakespeare at different intersections between performance and appropriation requires continuously negotiating what is signified through Shakespeare to the communities that use and consume him. [bios]Louise Geddes is Professor of English at Adelphi University, USA. Kathryn Vomero Santos is Assistant Professor of English and co-director of the Humanities Collective at Trinity University, USA. Geoffrey Way is the Manager of Publishing Futures for the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and ACMRS Press, where he serves as the Managing Editor for The Sundial and Borrowers and Lenders.

Author : Catherine O'Neil
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874138213

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With Shakespeare's Eyes by Catherine O'Neil Pdf

With Shakespeare's Eyes is the first monograph to focus exclusively on the relationship between the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin and Shakespeare. Taking into account contemporary perceptions of Shakespeare in print and on the Russian stage, O'Neil examines all levels of poetic influence of Shakespeare on Pushkin. In addition to untangling the central presence of Shakespeare on Pushkin's historical tragedy 'Boris Godunov'. O'Neil examines Shakepeare's influence in many other works by Pushkin, an influence that ranges from the textual to the conceptual. The Shakespeare plays addressed most closely in this book are 'Othello', 'Measure for Measure', and 'Julius Ceasar', all of which interact in a dynamic way with Pushkin's creative development. This book will help English readers understand better what it means to say Pushkin is 'the Shakespeare of Russia.' Catherine O'Neil is Assistant Professor of Russian at the University of Denver.