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What is Shakespeare and Appropriation (Accents on Shakespeare) about?
<p>The vitality of our culture is still often measured by the status Shakespeare has within it. Contemporary readers and writers continue to exploit Shakespeare's cultural afterlife in a vivid and creative way. This fascinating collection of original essays shows how writers' efforts to imitate, contradict, compete with, and reproduce Shakespeare keep him in the cultural conversation.<br> The essays:</p> <p>• analyze the methods and motives of Shakespearean appropriation</p> <p>• investigate theoretically the return of the repressed author in discussions of Shakespeare's cultural function</p> <p>• put into dialogue theoretical and literary responses to Shakespeare's cultural authority</p> <p>• analyze works ranging from nineteenth century to the present, and genres ranging from poetry and the novel to Disney movies.</p>
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Christy Desmet and Robert Sawyer
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781134622573
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction
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