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Shakespeare and Modern Culture
by Garber, Marjorie
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0307377679
- ISBN 13
- 9780307377678
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Pantheon, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. Large sturdy book, black covers, spine very slightly slanted, a remainder mark at pages' bottom edge, silver lettering bright on spine, an address label at top inside front cover, an ink owner's name at top inside front cover too, also on half-title page, title page, and dedication page though neat, 326 pages. Extensive ink underlining and lines in margins, notes too. DJ glossy with a colorful illustration of Shakespeare's head in modern art to front and spine. DJ has light wear at top front tip, tiny tears with very slight wear at top back tip. Near Good DJ/Fair book.
Synopsis
From one of the world's premier Shakespeare scholars, author of Shakespeare After All ("the indispensable introduction to the indispensable writer"--Newsweek): a magisterial new study whose premise is "that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare."Shakespeare has determined many of the ideas that we think of as "naturally" our own and even as "naturally" true--ideas about human character, individuality and selfhood, government, leadership, love and jealousy, men and women, youth and age. Yet many of these ideas, timely as ever, have been reimagined--are indeed often now first encountered--not only in modern fiction, theater, film, and the news but also in the literature of psychology, sociology, political theory, business, medicine, and law.Marjorie Garber delves into ten plays to explore the interrelationships between Shakespeare and twentieth century and contemporary culture--from James Joyce's Ulysses to George W. Bush's reading list. In The Merchant of Venice, she looks at the question of intention; in Hamlet, the matter of character; in King Lear, the dream of sublimity; in Othello, the persistence of difference; and in Macbeth, the necessity of interpretation. She discusses the conundrum of man in The Tempest; the quest for exemplarity in Henry V; the problem of fact in Richard III; the estrangement of self in Coriolanus; and the untimeliness of youth in Romeo and Juliet.Shakespeare and Modern Culture is a tour de force reimagining of our own mental and emotional landscape as refracted through the prism of protean "Shakespeare."From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 059957
- Title
- Shakespeare and Modern Culture
- Author
- Garber, Marjorie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0307377679
- ISBN 13
- 9780307377678
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Pages
- 368
Terms of Sale
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Callaghan Books South
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New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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