Constellation Caliban: Figurations of a CharacterNadia Lie, Theo d'. Haen Rodopi, 1997 - 356 Seiten We are now in the Age of Caliban rather than in the Time of Ariel or the Era of Prospero, Harold Bloom claimed in 1992. Bloom was specifically referring to Caliban's rising popularity as the prototype of the colonised or repressed subject, especially since the 1980s. However, already earlier the figure of Caliban had inspired artists from the most divergent backgrounds: Robert Browning, Ernest Renan, Aimé Césaire, and Peter Greenaway, to name only some of the better known. Much has already been published on Caliban, and there exist a number of excellent surveys of this character's appearance in literature and the other arts. The present collection does not aim to trace Caliban over the ages. Rather, Constellation Caliban intends to look at a number of specific refigurations of Caliban. What is the Caliban-figure's role and function within a specific work of art? What is its relation to the other signifiers in that work of art? What interests are invested in the Caliban-figure, what values does it represent or advocate? Whose interests and values are these? These and similar questions guided the contributors to the present volume. In other words, what one finds here is not a study of origins, not a genealogy, not a reception-study, but rather a fascinating series of case studies informed by current theoretical debate in areas such as women's studies, sociology of literature and of the intellectuals, nation-formation, new historicism, etc. Its interdisciplinary approach and its attention to matters of multi-culturalism make Constellation Caliban into an unusually wide ranging and highly original contribution to Shakespeare-studies. The book should appeal to students of English Literature, Modern European Literature, Comparative Literature, Drama or Theatre Studies, and Cultural Studies, as well as to anyone interested in looking at literature within a broad social and historical context while still appreciating detailed textual analyses. |
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... role on the slippery stage of Italian court politics . Her astounding naiveté in the face of moral degradation and cunning policy ( " O brave new world " ) reminds one of the blindness with which Prospero had stumbled into political ...
... role on the slippery stage of Italian court politics . Her astounding naiveté in the face of moral degradation and cunning policy ( " O brave new world " ) reminds one of the blindness with which Prospero had stumbled into political ...
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... role in the theatres of fantasy and reality . ( Brockbank 1966 : 184 ) The notion of discourse has wider implications than the well - known genre classifications alluded to by Brockbank , but the citation nevertheless makes it clear ...
... role in the theatres of fantasy and reality . ( Brockbank 1966 : 184 ) The notion of discourse has wider implications than the well - known genre classifications alluded to by Brockbank , but the citation nevertheless makes it clear ...
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... role has shifted from the savage that Prospero takes him for to the rebellious victim of western colonial expansion . Of late , there has been a modest reaction against the nearly exclusive emphasis on the colonial aspects of the play ...
... role has shifted from the savage that Prospero takes him for to the rebellious victim of western colonial expansion . Of late , there has been a modest reaction against the nearly exclusive emphasis on the colonial aspects of the play ...
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... role he plays in such seasonal rites of passage , his unique relation to nature continues to be the most important ... role ( Vandenbroeck 1987 : 18-19 ) . A second " positive " role can be found in hagiographical iconography . The early ...
... role he plays in such seasonal rites of passage , his unique relation to nature continues to be the most important ... role ( Vandenbroeck 1987 : 18-19 ) . A second " positive " role can be found in hagiographical iconography . The early ...
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... role of victim . In a Swiss tapestry ( 1450-1475 ) now in the Nationalmusem in Copenhagen ( fig . 8 ) ( Husband 1980 : 90 ; Vandenbroeck 1987 : 19 ) and on a love - chest ( a common wedding present ) now in the Historisches Museum in ...
... role of victim . In a Swiss tapestry ( 1450-1475 ) now in the Nationalmusem in Copenhagen ( fig . 8 ) ( Husband 1980 : 90 ; Vandenbroeck 1987 : 19 ) and on a love - chest ( a common wedding present ) now in the Historisches Museum in ...
Inhalt
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43 | |
Jürgen Pieters | 61 |
Koenraad Geldof | 81 |
Ortwin de Graef | 87 |
Browning Born to Wordsworth Intimations of Relatability from | 113 |
Maarten van Delden | 145 |
Bart Philipsen Georgi Verbeeck | 163 |
Audens Caliban Mans Drab Mortality | 199 |
A James Arnold | 231 |
Nadia | 245 |
Chantal Zabus Kevin A Dwyer | 271 |
Hedwig Schwall | 291 |
Theo Dhaen | 313 |
Barfoot | 333 |
Index | 347 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
American analogy antisemitism Ariel Ariel and Caliban Arnold Zweig beauty become bourgeois Browning Browning's Caliban parle Caliban Upon Setebos Cambridge Caribbean century Certeau Césaire character colonial concept context creature critics Darwin Darwinian Díaz discourse edition English essay European fact Ferdinand Fernández Retamar figure film Forbidden Planet Freddie Freddie's Freud Greenaway Greenblatt Guéhenno 1962b Hulme human idea ideological intellectual interpretation intertextual island José Enrique Rodó Kermode language Latin America Léry literary literature London magic Miranda modern monster nature notion origin Paris play's poem political Ponce Ponce's postcolonial postmodern precisely Prospero question reading reference relation Renaissance Renan represents revolution rewrites Roberto Fernández Retamar Rodó Rodó's role Rolland savage seems selection sense Setebos sexual Shakespeare's Shakespeare's Caliban Shakespeare's play Skura social specific Stephano Sycorax symbol Tempest thou Timko Trinculo turn Vaughan and Vaughan Weimar Republic Western wild-man William Shakespeare Wordsworth writing
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 40 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometime voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me ; that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again.
Seite 120 - But there's a Tree, of many, one, A single Field which I have looked upon, Both of them speak of something that is gone. The Pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat. Whither is fled the visionary gleam ? Where is it now, the glory and the dream...
Seite 121 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind ; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be ; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering ; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Seite 36 - A devil, a born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick ; on whom my pains, Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost ; And as, with age, his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers.
Seite 138 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Seite 37 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O ! I have suffered With those that I saw suffer : a brave vessel, Who had no doubt some noble creature in her, Dash'd all to pieces.
Seite 319 - I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known. But thy vile race, Though thou didst learn, had that in't which good natures Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou Deservedly confin'd into this rock, who hadst Deserv'd more than a prison. CALIBAN. You taught me language, and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse.
Seite 124 - Il ne faut pas prendre les recherches dans lesquelles on peut entrer sur ce sujet pour des vérités historiques, mais seulement pour des raisonnements hypothétiques et conditionnels, plus propres à éclaircir la nature des choses, qu'à en montrer la véritable origine, et semblables à ceux que font tous les jours nos physiciens sur la formation du monde...