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Richard Halpern - Shakespeare among the Moderns - 9780801484186 - V9780801484186
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Shakespeare among the Moderns

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Description for Shakespeare among the Moderns Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
Modernist writers, critics, and artists sparked a fresh and distinctive interpretation of Shakespeare's plays which has proved remarkably tenacious, as Richard Halpern explains in this lively and provocative book. The preoccupations of such high modernists as T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and James Joyce set the tone for the critical reception of Shakespeare in the twentieth century. Halpern contends their habits of thought continue to dominate postmodern schools of criticism that claim to have broken with the modernist legacy.Halpern addresses such topics as imperialism and modernism's cult of the primitive, the rise of mass culture, modernist anti-semitism, and the aesthetic ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801484186
SKU
V9780801484186
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About Richard Halpern
Richard Halpern is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of many books, including Shakespeare among the Moderns and Shakespeare's Perfume: Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud and Lacan.

Reviews for Shakespeare among the Moderns
In a shrewd contribution to twentieth-century cultural historiography, Halpern discovers the contemporary Shakespeare, our Shakespeare, as a product of High Modernism. The fundamental continuities of Shakespeareanism in this century are traced in pages of deft levity and sustained power. But this is a good deal more than a mere history of modern Shakespeare performance and criticism: Halpern's analysis mounts an ... Read more

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