Shakespeare and Contemporary Fiction Theorizing Foundling and Lyric Plots |
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| Author:
| Estrin, Barbara L. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-64453-106-8 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2011 |
| Publisher: | University of Delaware Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $41.95 |
Book Description:
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In the first book to use fiction as theory, Barbara L. Estrin reverses chronological direction, beginning with contemporary novels to arrive at a re-visioned Shakespeare, uncovering a telling difference in the stories that script us and that influence our political unconscious in ways that have never been explored in literary-critical interpretations. Describing the animus against foreign blood, central to the dynamic of the foundling and lyric plots that form the nexus of...
More Description In the first book to use fiction as theory, Barbara L. Estrin reverses chronological direction, beginning with contemporary novels to arrive at a re-visioned Shakespeare, uncovering a telling difference in the stories that script us and that influence our political unconscious in ways that have never been explored in literary-critical interpretations. Describing the animus against foreign blood, central to the dynamic of the foundling and lyric plots that form the nexus of her study, Estrin describes how late modern writers change those plots.