The Winter S Tale Language And Writing
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The Winter S Tale Language And Writing
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Author : Mario DiGangi
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-06-02
The Winter S Tale Language And Writing written by Mario DiGangi and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Through expert guidance on understanding, interpreting, and writing about Shakespeare's language, this book makes The Winter's Tale accessible and exciting for students. It demonstrates that careful attention to Shakespeare's complex dramatic language can clarify the structure and concerns of the play, as well as provide deep and satisfying engagement with the social, political and ethical questions Shakespeare raises. Each chapter features a 'Writing Matters' section designed to connect analysis of Shakespeare's language to students' development of their own writing strategies. The book examines topics in the play such as tragicomic genre; women's assertion of social and political agency; obedience and resistance to rulers; the virtues and risks of following festivity, and disputes over the proper forms of religious devotion.
The Winter S Tale
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Author : Mario DiGangi
language : en
Publisher:
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The Winter S Tale written by Mario DiGangi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with English drama categories.
"Because of its length, generic hybridity, and implausible romance conventions, The Winter's Tale is a challenging play. Through expert guidance on understanding, interpreting, and writing about Shakespeare's language, this book makes The Winter's Tale accessible and exciting for students. It demonstrates that careful attention to Shakespeare's complex dramatic language can clarify the structure and concerns of the play, as well as provide deep and satisfying engagement with the social, political, and ethical questions Shakespeare raises. Divided into five chapters, each featuring a 'Writing Matters' section designed to connect analysis of Shakespeare's language to students' development of their own writing strategies, the book begins with a consideration of this unusual play's hybrid genre and sources, and offers some basic strategies for comprehending Shakespearean drama. Chapter One provides methods for identifying and addressing the difficulty of Shakespeare's figurative language, at the same time promoting appreciation for the power and richness of meaning that comes from the ambiguity of that language. Chapter Two considers how Shakespeare's use of different verbal and dramatic forms - prose, verse, soliloquies, asides, dialogue, rhetorical tropes - shapes character, action, and meaning. Chapter Three examines the discourses in the play of gender, politics, festivity and religion to understand how the significance of language in The Winter's Tale relates to the historical circumstances in which it is read or performed. Building on previous 'Writing Matters' sections, the final chapter provides guidelines for strengthening students' analytical writing, particularly for longer essays."--
The Oxford Handbook Of Shakespeare And Race
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Author : Patricia Akhimie
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024
The Oxford Handbook Of Shakespeare And Race written by Patricia Akhimie and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Literary Criticism categories.
Presents current scholarship on race and racism in Shakespeare's works. The Handbook offers an overview of approaches used in early modern critical race studies through fresh readings of the plays; an exploration of new methodologies and archives; and sustained engagement with race in contemporary performance, adaptation, and activism.
Pragmemes And Theories Of Language Use
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Author : Keith Allan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-01-10
Pragmemes And Theories Of Language Use written by Keith Allan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume offers recent developments in pragmatics and adjacent territories of investigation, including important new concepts such as the pragmatic act and the pragmeme, and combines developments in neighboring disciplines in an integrative holistic pragmatic approach. The young science of pragmatics has, from its inception, differentiated itself from neighboring fields in the humanities, especially the disciplines dealing with language and those focusing on the social and anthropological aspects of human behavior, by focusing on the language user in his or her societal environment.This collection of papers continues that emphasis on language use, and pragmatic acts in their context. The editors and contributors share a perspective that essentially considers language as a system for communication and wants to look at language from a societal perspective, and accept the view that acts of interpretation are essentially embedded in culture. In an interdisciplinary approach, some authors explore connections with social theory, in particular sociology or socio-linguistics, some offer a political stance (critical discourse analysis), others explore connections with philosophy and philosophy of language, and several papers address problems in theoretical pragmatics.
Shakespeare And The Arts Of Language
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Author : Russ McDonald
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Shakespeare And The Arts Of Language written by Russ McDonald and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research. For the modern reader or playgoer, English as Shakespeare used it can seem alien and puzzling: vocabulary and grammar are in transition, pronouns and verb-forms can seem unfamiliar. Moreover, the conventions of poetic drama may also pose an impediment. Shakespeare and the Arts of Language provides a clear and helpful guide to the linguistic and rhetorical dimensions of the plays and poems. Written in a lucid, non-technical style, the book starts with the story of how the English language changed throughout the sixteenth century. Subsequent chapters define Shakespeare's main artistic tools and illustrate their poetic and theatrical contributions: Renaissance rhetoric, imagery and metaphor, blank verse, prose speech, and wordplay. The conclusion surveys Shakespeare's multiple and often conflicting ideas about language, encompassing both his enthusiasm at what words can do for us and his suspicion of what words can do to us. Throughout, Russ McDonald helps his readers to appreciate a play's concerns and theatrical effects by thinking about its language in relation to other writings of the period. He also emphasizes pleasure in the physical properties of Shakespeare's words: their colour, weight, and texture, the appeal of verbal patterns, and the irresistible power of intensified language.
Writing Robert Greene
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Author : Professor Edward Gieskes
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-04-28
Writing Robert Greene written by Professor Edward Gieskes and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Robert Greene, contemporary of Shakespeare and Marlowe and member of the group of six known as the "University Wits," is the subject of this essay collection, the first to be dedicated solely to his work. Although in his short lifetime Greene published some three dozen prose works, composed at least five plays, and was one of the period's most recognized-even notorious-literary figures, his place within the canon of Renaissance writers has been marginal at best. Writing Robert Greene offers a reappraisal of Greene's career and of his contribution to Elizabethan culture. Rather than drawing lines between Greene's work for the pamphlet market and for the professional theatres, the essays in the volume imagine his writing on a continuum. Some essays trace the ways in which Greene's poetry and prose navigate differing cultural economies. Others consider how the full spectrum of his writing contributes to an emergent professional discourse about popular print and theatrical culture. The volume includes an annotated bibliography of recent scholarship on Greene and three valuable appendices (presenting apocrypha; edition information; and editions organized by year of publication).
The Duchess Of Malfi
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Author : John Webster
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1997-06-15
The Duchess Of Malfi written by John Webster and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06-15 with Drama categories.
More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition. Based on the Revels Plays text, the notes have been augmented to cast further light both on Webster's amazing dialogue and on the stage action. An entirely new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and gives a revealing view of its imagery and dramatic action. From its well-documented early performances to the two productions seen in the West End of London in the 1995-96 season, a stage history gives an account of the play in performance. Students, actors, directors and theatre-goers will all find here a reappraisal of Webster's artistry in the greatest age of English theatre, which highlights why it has lived on stage with renewed force in the last decades of the twentieth century.
The Palgrave Handbook Of Shakespeare S Queens
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Author : Kavita Mudan Finn
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-07-20
The Palgrave Handbook Of Shakespeare S Queens written by Kavita Mudan Finn and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-20 with History categories.
Of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays, fifteen include queens. This collection gives these characters their due as powerful early modern women and agents of change, bringing together new perspectives from scholars of literature, history, theater, and the fine arts. Essays span Shakespeare’s career and cover a range of famous and lesser-known queens, from the furious Margaret of Anjou in the Henry VI plays to the quietly powerful Hermione in The Winter’s Tale; from vengeful Tamora in Titus Andronicus to Lady Macbeth. Early chapters situate readers in the critical concerns underpinning any discussion of Shakespeare and queenship: the ambiguous figure of Elizabeth I, and the knotty issue of gender presentation. The focus then moves to analysis of issues such as motherhood, intertextuality, and contemporary political contexts; close readings of individual plays; and investigations of rhetoric and theatricality. Featuring twenty-five chapters with a rich variety of themes and methodologies, this handbook is an invaluable reference for students and scholars, and a unique addition to the fields of Shakespeare and queenship studies. Winner of the 2020 Royal Studies Journal book prize
This Is Shakespeare
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Author : Emma Smith
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-05-02
This Is Shakespeare written by Emma Smith and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-02 with Drama categories.
A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer 'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary Mantel A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality and literary mastery. Who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn't really tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant, deflecting us from investigating the challenges of his inconsistencies and flaws. This electrifying new book thrives on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of Shakespeare's plays and their changing topicality. It introduces an intellectually, theatrically and ethically exciting writer who engages with intersectionality as much as with Ovid, with economics as much as poetry: who writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity and sex. It takes us into a world of politicking and copy-catting, as we watch him emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd, the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day; flirting with and skirting round the cut-throat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval and technological change. The Shakespeare in this book poses awkward questions rather than offering bland answers, always implicating us in working out what it might mean. This is Shakespeare. And he needs your attention.
Legacies And Lifespans In Contemporary Women S Writing
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Author : Gina Wisker
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-07-03
Legacies And Lifespans In Contemporary Women S Writing written by Gina Wisker and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines the connections and conversations between women writers from the twentieth century and the twenty-first century. The essays consider the ways in which twenty-first-century women writers look back and respond to their predecessors within the field of contemporary women’s writing. The book looks back to the foundations of contemporary women’s writing and also considers how this category may be defined in future decades. We ask how writers and readers have interpreted ‘the contemporary’, a moving target and an often-contentious term, especially in light of feminist theory and criticism of the late twentieth century. Writing about the relationships between women’s writings is an always-vital, ongoing political project with a rich history. These essays argue that establishing and defining the contemporary is, for women writers, another ongoing political project to which this collection of essays aims, in part, to contribute.