Rethinking Historicism
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Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton
Author: Ann Baynes Coiro
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2012-10-22
This volume explores the history and practice of historicism and its present usefulness for literary criticism, its limitations and its future.
Shakespeare's History Plays: Rethinking Historicism
Author: Neema Parvini
language: en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date: 2012-03-21
Boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare as a supremely intelligent and creative political thinker, whose history plays address and illuminate the very questions with which cultural historicists have been so preoccupied since the 1980s. The book reignites old debates and re-energises recent bids to humanise Shakespeare and to restore agency to the individual in the critical readings of his plays.
Rethinking History
History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer. If you want to explore this tantalising subject, where do you start? What are the critical skills you need to begin to make sense of the past? The perfect introduction to this thought-provoking area, Jenkins' clear and concise prose guides readers through the controversies and debates that surround historical thinking at the present time, providing them with the means to make their own discoveries.