Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare

Selected byChoicemagazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 The New Historicism of the 1980s and early 1990s was preoccupied with the fashioning of early modern subjects. But, Jonathan Gil Harris notes, the pronounced tendency now is to engage with objects. From textiles to stage beards to f...

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1. Verfasser:	Harris, Jonathan Gil
Format:	E-Book Buch
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc 01.01.2011 University of Pennsylvania Press
Ausgabe:	1
Schlagworte:	1066-1687 Cultural Studies Early modern, 1500-1700 English literature English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Theory, etc English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh European Great Britain Great Britain > History > 1066-1687 > Historiography Historiography History History and criticism Language & Literature LITERARY CRITICISM LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literature Literature and history Literature and history > Great Britain > History Literature and society Literature and society > Great Britain > History Medieval and Renaissance Studies Shakespeare Theory, etc Cultural Studies Literature Medieval and Renaissance Studies
ISBN:	9780812221466, 081222146X, 0812202201, 9780812202205, 9780812241181, 0812241185
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Zusammenfassung:	Selected byChoicemagazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 The New Historicism of the 1980s and early 1990s was preoccupied with the fashioning of early modern subjects. But, Jonathan Gil Harris notes, the pronounced tendency now is to engage with objects. From textiles to stage beards to furniture, objects are read by literary critics as closely as literature used to be. For a growing number of Renaissance and Shakespeare scholars, the play is no longer the thing: the thing is the thing. Curiously, the current wave of "thing studies" has largely avoided posing questions of time. How do we understand time through a thing? What is the time of a thing? InUntimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare, Harris challenges the ways we conventionally understand physical objects and their relation to history. Turning to Renaissance theories of matter, Harris considers the profound untimeliness of things, focusing particularly on Shakespeare's stage materials. He reveals that many "Renaissance" objects were actually survivals from an older time-the medieval monastic properties that, post-Reformation, were recycled as stage props in the public playhouses, or the old Roman walls of London, still visible in Shakespeare's time. Then, as now, old objects were inherited, recycled, repurposed; they were polytemporal or palimpsested. By treating matter as dynamic and temporally hybrid, Harris addresses objects in their futurity, not just in their encapsulation of the past.Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeareis a bold study that puts thematériel-the explosive, world-changing potential-back into a "material culture" that has been too often understood as inert stuff.
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-259) and index
ISBN:	9780812221466 081222146X 0812202201 9780812202205 9780812241181 0812241185
DOI:	10.9783/9780812202205