Publicover Laurence (Senior Lecturer In English Senior Lecturer In English University Of Bristol)
Publicover Laurence (Senior Lecturer In English Senior Lecturer In English University Of Bristol) - Fathoming The Deep In English Renaissance Tragedy Horror Mystery And The Oceanic Sublime - Hardcover
Publicover Laurence (Senior Lecturer In English Senior Lecturer In English University Of Bristol) - Fathoming The Deep In English Renaissance Tragedy Horror Mystery And The Oceanic Sublime - Hardcover
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Description: This book demonstrates how a group of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries stage the fear and exhilaration generated by encounters with the unknown and the extraordinary. Arguing that the maritime art of fathoming - - that is dropping a lead and line into water to measure its depth - - operates as a master - image for these plays it illustrates how they create sublime horror through intuitions of mysterious more - than - human agencies and of worlds beyond the visible. Though tightly focused on a specific body of imagery the book strikes up dialogue with a number of critical fields including theories and histories of tragedy; ecocriticism and the environmental humanities; oceanic studies; and work on early modern ideas about the body madness and language. Countering a tendency within tragic theory to value the textual over the dramatic it also demonstrates how the tragic effects to which it points are created through specific theatrical strategies including the use of offstage space intertheatricality and the violation of dramatic conventions. Situating its arguments within recent criticism on these plays and on tragedy more generally and pushing back against scholarship that regards the genre in Shakespeare's time as concerned more with pity than with fear the book offers fresh and detailed readings of some of the most frequently studied plays in the English canon including Hamlet King Lear Macbeth The Duchess of Malfi and The Changeling.
Title: Fathoming The Deep In English Renaissance Tragedy Horror Mystery And The Oceanic Sublime
Author(s): Publicover Laurence (Senior Lecturer In English Senior Lecturer In English University Of Bristol)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198907084
Pages: 224 Pages, 5
Publication Date: 1/1/2025
Category: Shakespeare Studies & Criticism
Description: This book demonstrates how a group of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries stage the fear and exhilaration generated by encounters with the unknown and the extraordinary. Arguing that the maritime art of fathoming - - that is dropping a lead and line into water to measure its depth - - operates as a master - image for these plays it illustrates how they create sublime horror through intuitions of mysterious more - than - human agencies and of worlds beyond the visible. Though tightly focused on a specific body of imagery the book strikes up dialogue with a number of critical fields including theories and histories of tragedy; ecocriticism and the environmental humanities; oceanic studies; and work on early modern ideas about the body madness and language. Countering a tendency within tragic theory to value the textual over the dramatic it also demonstrates how the tragic effects to which it points are created through specific theatrical strategies including the use of offstage space intertheatricality and the violation of dramatic conventions. Situating its arguments within recent criticism on these plays and on tragedy more generally and pushing back against scholarship that regards the genre in Shakespeare's time as concerned more with pity than with fear the book offers fresh and detailed readings of some of the most frequently studied plays in the English canon including Hamlet King Lear Macbeth The Duchess of Malfi and The Changeling.
Title: Fathoming The Deep In English Renaissance Tragedy Horror Mystery And The Oceanic Sublime
Author(s): Publicover Laurence (Senior Lecturer In English Senior Lecturer In English University Of Bristol)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198907084
Pages: 224 Pages, 5
Publication Date: 1/1/2025
Category: Shakespeare Studies & Criticism
