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'All of the essays attest to Belsey's career-long commitment to theory and its ability to deliver new ways of reading ! Her attention in this collection to materiality and wordplay is indicative of her considerable skills as a close reader. Shakespeare Survey These are essays of love, as well as about love, and this makes them unusually sensitive...Belsey's insistence on the anarchy of desire seems both timely and genuinely radical. -- Peter Holbrook Times Literary Supplement 'All of the essays attest to Belsey's career-long commitment to theory and its ability to deliver new ways of reading ! Her attention in this collection to materiality and wordplay is indicative of her considerable skills as a close reader. These are essays of love, as well as about love, and this makes them unusually sensitive...Belsey's insistence on the anarchy of desire seems both timely and genuinely radical.

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Catherine Belsey is currently Research Professor at Swansea University and formerly Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff University. Best known for her pioneering book, Critical Practice (Methuen, 1980), Catherine Belsey has an international reputation as a deft and sophisticated critical theorist and subtle and eloquent critic of literature, particularly of Renaissance texts. Her books include The Subject of Tragedy: Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama (Methuen, 1985), John Milton: Language, Gender, Power (Basil Blackwell, 1988), Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture (Blackwell, 1994), Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden (Macmillan, 1999), Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2002) and Culture and the Real (Routledge, 2005).

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