Close Reading without Readings: Essays on Shakespeare and Others

Author:   Stephen Booth
Publisher:   Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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9781611478907


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   14 December 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Stephen Booth
Publisher:   Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Imprint:   Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.413kg
ISBN:  

9781611478907


ISBN 10:   1611478901
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   14 December 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Foreword 1. Poetic Richness, A Preliminary Audit: Antony and Cleopatra 3.10 2. The Acquiescent Audience 3. Desdemona’s Eyes and the Aesthetics of Blindness 4. 2 Henry IV and the Aesthetics of Failure 5. Faith in The Winter’s Tale and Faith in The Winter’s Tale 6. A Discourse on the Witty Partition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream 7. Twelfth Night and Othello: Those Extraordinary Twins 8. Deviation, Variation, and Variety in Stanza One of Venus and Adonis 9. On the Eventfulness of Hero and Leander 10. Prelapsarian Eroticism: Paradise Lost 11. On the Aesthetic Significance of Non-Signifying Signification in Romeo and Juliet 12. Liking Julius Caesar 13. On the Value of Hamlet Index

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This collection of 13 essays by influential scholar Stephen Booth includes some heretofore unpublished conference papers and some previously published works. As a deconstructionist pioneer, Booth discusses the unsettled meanings in literary works, some 'irritants,' and insists (as Prospero does with Miranda) that readers must be attentive to primary texts. Booth offers, for example, close readings of Julius Caesar-a play that 'makes fools of its audience'-and the 'editor-made text' of Hamlet. Booth also explores Marlowe's Hero and Leander, Milton's Paradise Lost, and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, The Winter's Tale, Twelfth Night, and Othello. In all of the essays, Booth's tone is humorous and vital, even visceral. As in every perfect piece of literature, form and content meet in this book as Booth uses stylistic practices similar to those he explores. For example, in 'Witty Partition of A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Booth uses a conversational, direct address challenging the audience to experience the beauty in literature. A demanding writer, Booth admits to offering 'painful exercises' in these readings and unapologetically commands readers to 'engage in some [them]selves.' Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *


This collection of 13 essays by influential scholar Stephen Booth includes some heretofore unpublished conference papers and some previously published works. As a deconstructionist pioneer, Booth discusses the unsettled meanings in literary works, some 'irritants,' and insists (as Prospero does with Miranda) that readers must be attentive to primary texts. Booth offers, for example, close readings of Julius Caesar-a play that 'makes fools of its audience'-and the 'editor-made text' of Hamlet. Booth also explores Marlowe's Hero and Leander, Milton's Paradise Lost, and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, The Winter's Tale, Twelfth Night, and Othello. In all of the essays, Booth's tone is humorous and vital, even visceral. As in every perfect piece of literature, form and content meet in this book as Booth uses stylistic practices similar to those he explores. For example, in 'Witty Partition of A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Booth uses a conversational, direct address challenging the audience to experience the beauty in literature. A demanding writer, Booth admits to offering 'painful exercises' in these readings and unapologetically commands readers to 'engage in some [them]selves.' Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. CHOICE


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Stephen Booth is professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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