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Shakespeare Beyond Science: When Poetry Was the World (74) (Essential Essays Series)

By Sky Gilbert

Book information

Publisher
Guernica Editions
Year
2020
ISBN
9781771835039, 9781771835046, 9781771835053, 1771835036
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1151307 bytes)
Pages
200\68
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2023-11-03 06:13:43

Description

Shakespeare wrote at a unique historical turning point: the world was understood through poetry -- rather than through the science of observing it. In Shakespeare Beyond Science: When Poetry Was the World, Sky Gilbert's radical new research locates Shakespeare as a disciple of the Greek rhetorician Hermogenes, and a student of the Neo-Platonist Johannes Sturm. No, not just another ‘interpretation' of the meaning of Shakespeare's work. Instead, a radical approach to Shakespeare as magician and rhetorician, as a post-structuralist, more concerned with form than content, and confident of the dangerous magical power of words not only to persuade but to construct our consciousness.

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