Catherine Belsey
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748633012
- eISBN:
- 9780748652235
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748633012.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
The chapters in this book put theory to work in order to register Shakespeare's powers of seduction, together with his moment in history. Teasing out the meanings of the narrative poems, as well as ...
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The chapters in this book put theory to work in order to register Shakespeare's powers of seduction, together with his moment in history. Teasing out the meanings of the narrative poems, as well as some of the more familiar plays, the book demonstrates the possibilities of an attention to textuality that also draws on the archive. A reading of the Sonnets, written specially for the book, analyses their intricate and ambivalent inscription of desire. Between them, these chapters trace the progress of theory in the course of three decades, while a new introduction offers a narrative and analytical overview, from a participant's perspective, of some of its key implications. The book shows how texts can offer access to the dissonances of the past when theory finds an outcome in practice. It provides a demonstration of poststructuralist theory at work.Less
The chapters in this book put theory to work in order to register Shakespeare's powers of seduction, together with his moment in history. Teasing out the meanings of the narrative poems, as well as some of the more familiar plays, the book demonstrates the possibilities of an attention to textuality that also draws on the archive. A reading of the Sonnets, written specially for the book, analyses their intricate and ambivalent inscription of desire. Between them, these chapters trace the progress of theory in the course of three decades, while a new introduction offers a narrative and analytical overview, from a participant's perspective, of some of its key implications. The book shows how texts can offer access to the dissonances of the past when theory finds an outcome in practice. It provides a demonstration of poststructuralist theory at work.
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226072791
- eISBN:
- 9780226072814
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226072814.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
Alexandre Vladimirovitch Kojevnikov (1902–1968) or Koj`eve, as he was called as a French resident, was not fated to be quite as obscure a figure as Cournot had been. Cournot's work had foreshadowed ...
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Alexandre Vladimirovitch Kojevnikov (1902–1968) or Koj`eve, as he was called as a French resident, was not fated to be quite as obscure a figure as Cournot had been. Cournot's work had foreshadowed uncannily the postmodernist transcription of Condorcet's triumphantly modernist message into the sober terms of subsequent centuries. Koj`eve reshaped the Hegelian version of the progress theory (or more accurately, elements of it) in the spirit of structural postmodernism for a generation still shocked by World War I and facing virulent ideological conflicts. For that role, his life prepared him exceedingly well. Koj`eve's work was created in the politically and intellectually turbulent Europe that had seen a sharp decline in the persuasive force of the progress view. The word crisis began to be affixed to the connotations of progress and its vision of Western culture's future. With the actual present as well as the expectations for the future lacking sufficient promise, intellectuals were receptive to views of the past that no longer suggested a story of a steady human ascendancy to a greater rationality.Less
Alexandre Vladimirovitch Kojevnikov (1902–1968) or Koj`eve, as he was called as a French resident, was not fated to be quite as obscure a figure as Cournot had been. Cournot's work had foreshadowed uncannily the postmodernist transcription of Condorcet's triumphantly modernist message into the sober terms of subsequent centuries. Koj`eve reshaped the Hegelian version of the progress theory (or more accurately, elements of it) in the spirit of structural postmodernism for a generation still shocked by World War I and facing virulent ideological conflicts. For that role, his life prepared him exceedingly well. Koj`eve's work was created in the politically and intellectually turbulent Europe that had seen a sharp decline in the persuasive force of the progress view. The word crisis began to be affixed to the connotations of progress and its vision of Western culture's future. With the actual present as well as the expectations for the future lacking sufficient promise, intellectuals were receptive to views of the past that no longer suggested a story of a steady human ascendancy to a greater rationality.
