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10%OFFCourtney Lehmann - Shakespeare Remains: Theater to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern - 9780801487675 - V9780801487675
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Shakespeare Remains: Theater to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern

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Description for Shakespeare Remains: Theater to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 385.

No literary figure has proved so elusive as Shakespeare. How, Courtney Lehmann asks, can the controversies surrounding the Bard's authorship be resolved when his works precede the historical birth of that modern concept? And how is it that Shakespeare remains such a powerful presence today, years after poststructuralists hailed the "death of the author"? In her cogent book, Lehmann reexamines these issues through a new lens: film theory.

An alternative to literary models that either minimize or exalt the writer's creative role, film theory, in Lehmann's view, perceives authorship as a site of constitutive conflict, generating in the process the ... Read more

By projecting film theory from the postmodern to the early modern and back again, Lehmann demonstrates the ways in which Shakespeare emerges as a special effect—indeed, as an auteur—in two cultures wherein authors fear to tread.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press Ithaca
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801487675
SKU
V9780801487675
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About Courtney Lehmann
Courtney Lehmann is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies and Director of the Pacific Humanities Center at the University of the Pacific.

Reviews for Shakespeare Remains: Theater to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern
This is a first-rate study-densely written, expertly controlled, and intellectually invigorating.... Shakespeare Remains is a rare work-an original reflection on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century theater and an important contribution to discussion about 'the contestatory nature of Shakespeare's inheritance.'... Will significantly change perceptions of Shakespeare in all of his historical guises.
Mark Thornton Burnett
Shakespeare Quarterly
Equally smart and ... Read more

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