Stephen Booth

Close Reading without Readings

Essays on Shakespeare and Others

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Produktbeschreibung

Close Reading Without Readings is a collection of essays by the renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Booth in which the author directs readers to the experience of reading, bringing to bear the full power of his scholarship, critical acumen, and imagination to the study of how literature works.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781611478907
• ISBN-10: 1611478901
• Artikelnr.: 43716407

Autorenporträt

Stephen Booth is professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1. Poetic Richness, A Preliminary Audit: Antony and Cleopatra 3.10
2. The Acquiescent Audience 3. Desdemona's Eyes and the Aesthetics of
Blindness 4. 2 Henry IV and the Aesthetics of Failure 5. Faith in The
Winter's Tale and Faith in The Winter's Tale 6. A Discourse on the Witty
Partition of A Midsummer Night's Dream 7. Twelfth Night and Othello: Those
Extraordinary Twins 8. Deviation, Variation, and Variety in Stanza One of
Venus and Adonis 9. On the Eventfulness of Hero and Leander 10.
Prelapsarian Eroticism: Paradise Lost 11. On the Aesthetic Significance of
Non-Signifying Signification in Romeo and Juliet 12. Liking Julius Caesar
13. On the Value of Hamlet Index