Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 3 of 3
Sort by

Book
Spectral Shakespeares : media adaptations in the twenty-first century
Author:
ISBN: 9780230338753 9781137585127 9781137167323 9781137063762 0230338755 Year: 2013 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan

Approximate bodies : gender and power in early modern drama and anatomy
Author:
ISBN: 041534560X 0415345618 1134282354 9786610414079 1280414073 0203567129 Year: 2005 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The early modern period was an age of anatomical exploration and revelation, with new discoveries capturing the imagination not only of scientists but also of playwrights and poets. Approximate Bodies examines, in fascinating detail, the changing representation of the body in early modern drama and in the period's anatomical and gynaecological treatises.Maurizio Calbi focuses on the unstable representation of both masculinity and femininity in Renaissance texts such as The Duchess of Malfi, The Changeling and a variety of Shakespeare plays. Drawing on theor


Book
Postcolonial Ghosts

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

As liminal beings, ghosts seem particularly appropriate to define, question or challenge hybrid cultures where several, seemingly irreconcilable, identities coexist. The present volume wonders how they manifest themselves in the English-speaking world, and whether there is a specifically postcolonial kind of haunting. The twenty-two articles deal with textual, translational or historical ghosts, and take us to Canada, Australia, Africa, India or the Caribbean. Poems by Gerry Turcotte literally haunt the volume, which thus juxtaposes theory and practice in a dynamic and fruitful way. De par leur liminalité, les fantômes semblent particulièrement adaptés pour définir, interroger ou remettre en question des cultures hybrides où coexistent plusieurs identités apparemment inconciliables. Ce volume explore leurs diverses manifestations dans le monde anglophone, se demandant s’il existe une hantise proprement postcoloniale. Les vingt-deux articles nous présentent des fantômes historiques ou textuels, et nous emmènent du Canada à l’Australie, de l’Afrique à l’Inde ou à la Caraïbe. Des poèmes de Gerry Turcotte hantent littéralement le volume, qui juxtapose ainsi théorie et pratique de façon dynamique et féconde.

Listing 1 - 3 of 3
Sort by