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Posthumanist Shakespeares

Édité parStefan Herbrechter Ivan Callus

Résumé

Shakespeare scholars and cultural theorists critically investigate the relationship between early modern culture and contemporary political and technological changes concerning the idea of the 'human.' The volume covers the tragedies King Lear and Hamlet in particular, but also provides posthumanist readings of other Shakespearean plays.

Détails | Table des matières

Introduction — Shakespeare ever after Stefan Herbrechter

pp.1-19

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137033598_1
The science of the heart

Shakespeare, Kames and the eighteenth-century invention of the human

Neil Rhodes

pp.23-40

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137033598_2
"A passion so strange, outrageous, and so variable"

the invention of the inhuman in the Merchant of Venice

Stefan Herbrechter

pp.41-57

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137033598_3
Shakespeare and the character of sheep Bruce Boehrer

pp.58-76

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137033598_4
Homeostasis in Shakespeare Gabriel Egan

pp.77-94

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137033598_5
Care, scepticism and speaking in the plural

posthumanisms and humanisms in King Lear

Andy Mousley

pp.97-113

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137033598_6
Cyborg Coriolanus / monster body politic Mareile Pfannebecker

pp.114-132

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137033598_7
Renaissance self-unfashioning

Shakespeare's late plays as exercises in unravelling the human

Rainer Emig

pp.133-159

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137033598_8
Surviving truth (measure for measure) Mark Robson

pp.160-177

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137033598_9
(Post-)heideggerian Hamlet Laurent Milesi

pp.181-193

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137033598_10
Loam, moles and l'homme

reversible Hamlet

Marie-Dominique Garnier

pp.194-212

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137033598_11
"This?"

posthumanism and the graveyard scene in Hamlet

Ivan Callus

pp.213-237

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137033598_12
Post-posthumanist me — an illiterate reads Shakespeare Adam Max Cohen

pp.241-255

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137033598_13

Détails de la publication

Maison d'édition: Palgrave Macmillan

Lieu de publication: Basingstoke

Année: 2012

Pages: 261

Collection: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies

DOI: 10.1057/9781137033598

ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-34813-8

ISBN (digital): 978-1-137-03359-8

Citation complète:

Herbrechter Stefan, Callus Ivan (éd.), 2012, Posthumanist Shakespeares. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.