Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory
Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory

Author: Rebecca Laroche

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-03-23

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1472590457

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FC -- Half title -- Arden Shakespeare and Theory -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Communities, collaborations and chaos -- The Process of the book -- Introduction: Ecofeminism and the seeds of time -- Ecofeminism past and present -- Ecofeminism in/and early modern studies -- 1 Ecofeminism matters -- Domesticated beings -- Knowing things -- A substance of subject-objects -- Historical practice and present crisis -- 2 Of mouseholes and housefires: Transcorporeal domesticity -- 'Noysome and pestilent things' -- Pest control: The scratching cat and 'the smallest monstrous mouse' -- (Beyond) pest control: Fleas, flies and other creeping creatures -- Between small and great, soft and fierce: The hearth -- After the fire -- 3 How we know any thing -- Nothing is everything -- Unknowability -- 'Howe'er you come to know it' -- The power of and in uncertainty -- 4 The dynamic object -- The indifference of stone -- Dynamism in the garden -- (Boys as) women as plants -- Petrarch in the produce aisle -- Conclusion: Nature, stir: Ecofeminists in the archive -- Healing nature -- Living nature -- Appendix: Excavating nature -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory
Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory

Author: Jennifer Munroe

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-02-23

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1472590473

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Ecofeminism has been an important field of theory in philosophy and environmental studies for decades. It takes as its primary concern the way the relationship between the human and nonhuman is both material and cultural, but it also investigates how this relationship is inherently entangled with questions of gender equity and social justice. Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory engagingly establishes a history of ecofeminist scholarship relevant to early modern studies, and provides a clear overview of this rich field of philosophical enquiry. Through fresh, detailed readings of Shakespeare's poetry and drama, this volume is a wholly original study articulating the ways in which we can better understand the world of Shakespeare's plays, and the relationships between men, women, animals, and plants that we see in them.

The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism
The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism

Author: Evelyn Gajowski

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-10-15

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1350093238

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The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on 20 specific critical practices, each grounded in analysis of a Shakespeare play. These practices range from foundational approaches including character studies, close reading and genre studies, through those that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s that challenged the preconceptions on which traditional liberal humanism is based, including feminism, cultural materialism and new historicism. Perspectives drawn from postcolonial, queer studies and critical race studies, besides more recent critical practices including presentism, ecofeminism and cognitive ethology all receive detailed treatment. In addition to its coverage of distinct critical approaches, the handbook contains various sections that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A–Z glossary of key terms and concepts, a chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to resources for study of the field and a substantial annotated bibliography.

Shakespeare and Queer Theory
Shakespeare and Queer Theory

Author: Melissa E. Sanchez

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-01-24

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1474256708

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Shakespeare and Queer Theory is an indispensable guide on the ongoing critical debates about queer method both within and beyond Shakespeare and early modern studies. Clearly elucidating the central ideas of the theory, the field's historical emergence from feminist and gay and lesbian studies within the academy, and political activism related to the AIDS crisis beyond it, it also illuminates current debates about historicism and embodiment. Through a series of original readings of texts including Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and Venus and Adonis, as well as film adaptations of early modern drama including Derek Jarman's The Tempest and Edward II, Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, and Julie Taymor's Titus, it illustrates the value of queer theory to Shakespeare scholarship, and the value of Shakespearean texts to queer theory.

Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory
Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory

Author: Jyotsna G. Singh

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-01-24

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1408186055

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Now available in paperback, Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory is an up-to-date guide to contemporary debates in postcolonial studies and how these shape our understanding of Shakespeare's politics and poetics. Taking a historical perspective, it covers early modern discourses of colonialism, 'race', gender and globalization, through to contemporary intercultural appropriations and global adaptations of Shakespeare. Showing how the dialogue between Shakespeare criticism and postcolonial studies has evolved, this book offers a critical vocabulary that connects contemporary and early modern cultural struggles. Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory also provides guides to further reading and online resources which make this an essential resource for students and scholars of Shakespeare.

Feminist Ecocriticism
Feminist Ecocriticism

Author: Douglas A. Vakoch

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 073917682X

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After uncovering the oppressive dichotomies of male/female and nature/culture that underlie contemporary environmental problems, Feminist Ecocriticism focuses specifically on emancipatory strategies employed by ecofeminist literary critics as antidotes, asking what our lives might be like as those strategies become increasingly successful in overcoming oppression. Thus, ecofeminism is not limited to the critique of literature, but also helps identify and articulate liberatory ideals that can be actualized in the real world, in the process transforming everyday life. Providing an alternative to rugged individualism, for example, ecofeminist literature promotes a more fulfilling sense of interrelationship with both community and the land. In the process of exploring literature from ecofeminist perspectives, the book reveals strategies of emancipation that have already begun to give rise to more hopeful ecological narratives.

Shakespeare and Feminist Theory
Shakespeare and Feminist Theory

Author: Marianne Novy

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-09-21

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1472567080

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Are Shakespeare's plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant, and if so how, that his women were first played by boys? This book shows how many kinds of feminist theory help analyze the dynamics of Shakespeare's plays. Both feminist theory and the plays deal with issues such as likeness and difference between the sexes, the complexity of relationships between women, the liberating possibilities of desire, what marriage means and how much women can remake it, how women can use and expand their culture's ideas of motherhood and of women's work, and how women can have power through language. This lively exploration of these and related issues is an ideal introduction to the field of feminist readings of Shakespeare.

Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare
Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare

Author: Hillary Eklund

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-09-09

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1474455603

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This book provides diverse perspectives on Shakespeare and early modern literature that engage innovation, collaboration, and forward-looking practices.

Shakespeare / Sex
Shakespeare / Sex

Author: Jennifer Drouin

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-11-12

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 135010857X

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Shakespeare / Sex interrogates the relationship between Shakespeare and sex by challenging readers to consider Shakespeare's texts in light of the most recent theoretical approaches to gender and sexuality studies. It takes as its premise that gender and sexuality studies are key to any interpretation of Shakespeare, be it his texts and their historical contexts, contemporary stage and cinematic productions, or adaptations from the Restoration to the present day. Approaching 'sex' from four main perspectives – heterosexuality, third-wave intersectional feminism, queer studies and trans studies – this book tackles a range of key topics, such as medical science, rape culture, the environment, disability, religion, childhood sexuality, race, homoeroticism and trans bodies. The 12 essays range across Shakespeare's poems and plays, including the Sonnets and The Rape of Lucrece, Coriolanus, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure for Measure, Richard III and The Two Noble Kinsmen. Encouraged to push the envelope, contributors to this essay collection open new avenues of inquiry for the study of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare.

Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts
Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts

Author: Jennifer Munroe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-09

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1317146352

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Ecocriticism has steadily gained footing within the larger arena of early modern scholarship, and with the publication of well over a dozen monographs, essay collections, and special journal issues, literary studies looks increasingly ’green’; yet the field lacks a straightforward, easy-to-use guide to do with reading and teaching early modern texts ecocritically. Accessible yet comprehensive, the cutting-edge collection Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts fills this gap. Organized around the notion of contact zones (or points of intersection, that have often been constructed asymmetrically-especially with regard to the human-nonhuman dichotomy), the volume reassesses current trends in ecocriticism and the Renaissance; introduces analyses of neglected texts and authors; brings ecocriticism into conversation with cognate fields and approaches (e.g., queer theory, feminism, post-coloniality, food studies); and offers a significant section on pedagogy, ecocriticism and early modern literature. Engaging points of tension and central interest in the field, the collection is largely situated in the 'and/or' that resides between presentism-historicism, materiality-literary, somatic-semiotic, nature-culture, and, most importantly, human-nonhuman. Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts balances coverage and methodology; its primary goal is to provide useful, yet nuanced discussions of ecological approaches to reading and teaching a range of representative early modern texts. As a whole, the volume includes a diverse selection of chapters that engage the complex issues that arise when reading and teaching early modern texts from a green perspective.