Shakespeare's Neighbors: Theory Matters in the Bard and His Contemporaries - Softcover

Coronato, Rocco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761821465 ISBN 13: 9780761821465

Publisher: University Press of America, 2001

Synopsis

Shakespeares Neighbors focuses on what lay next door to Shakespeare- the theoretical context that, while partially lost on us, was quite likely to inform the perception that Shakespeares contemporaries (his neighbors) had of his works. In this series of alternative readings, the primacy of the literary text is set against the backdrop of unexpected or largely ignored theories whose enormous diffusion renders them inescapable terms of comparison. Rocco Coronato advocates the likely as a viable backdrop to literary analysis. The inference has it that the presence of such widely disseminated theories may allow for the study of the literary works through their own codes and imagery, without implying a rigidly ideological transmission between social and literary domains. While written with literary criticism in mind, Coronato manages to avoid convoluted jargon, striving in the process to translate the terms of otherwise esoteric discourses into a generally accessible language form, for the benefit of a non-specialist audience as well.

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About the Author

Rocco Coronato is Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Siena, Italy.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761821465
• ISBN 13: 9780761821465
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194