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Author: Gleyzon, François-Xavier, Gleyzon, Françoi
Publisher: University Press of America
Imprint: University Press of America
Dimensions:
Width: 15.90cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 23.20cm
Weight: 0.426kg
ISBN: 9780761841371
ISBN 10: 0761841377
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 19 March 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Shakespeare's Spiral takes part in the new attention to the Creature, the Thing, and forms of life in literary, philosophical, and iconographic studies of Renaissance matter. In this witty and moving book, Gleyzon twists natural history, biopolitics, and the ecology of signs into a single spiral of incarnate thought, presenting the [snail] as both an object and a method for contemporary engagement with major and minor life forms of the past and present. -- Julia Reinhard Lupton The Spiral is at once beautiful and rare. -- Juliet Fleming An evocative, genuinely exploratory study - rangy and surprising. Gleyzon combines an extraordinary range of theoretical reference, an instinct for the improbable and illuminating conjunction - Charcot and Durer, western thought and the gastropod - with a refined attentiveness to the poetics of text and language. -- Christopher Pye Shakespeare's Spiral deserves to be read by scholars in and outside of the Shakespearean shellter (p. xix). The book invites critics to come out of their methodological shells; for this reason perhaps--in the words of an early review of Catch-22--it will prove to be 'a dazzling performance that will outrage nearly as many readers as it delights'. English Studies
Shakespeare's Spiral takes part in the new attention to the Creature, the Thing, and forms of life in literary, philosophical, and iconographic studies of Renaissance matter. In this witty and moving book, Gleyzon twists natural history, biopolitics, and the ecology of signs into a single spiral of incarnate thought, presenting the [snail] as both an object and a method for contemporary engagement with major and minor life forms of the past and present. -- Julia Reinhard Lupton, The University of California, Irvine The Spiral is at once beautiful and rare. -- Juliet Fleming, New York University and the University of Cambridge An evocative, genuinely exploratory study - rangy and surprising. Gleyzon combines an extraordinary range of theoretical reference, an instinct for the improbable and illuminating conjunction - Charcot and Durer, western thought and the gastropod - with a refined attentiveness to the poetics of text and language. -- Christopher Pye, Williams College Shakespeare's Spiral deserves to be read by scholars in and outside of the Shakespearean shellter (p. xix). The book invites critics to come out of their methodological shells; for this reason perhaps-in the words of an early review of Catch-22-it will prove to be 'a dazzling performance that will outrage nearly as many readers as it delights'. English Studies
An evocative, genuinely exploratory study - rangy and surprising. Gleyzon combines an extraordinary range of theoretical reference, an instinct for the improbable and illuminating conjunction - Charcot and Durer, western thought and the gastropod - with a refined attentiveness to the poetics of text and language.--Christopher Pye
The Spiral is at once beautiful and rare.--Juliet Fleming
Author Information
François-Xavier Gleyzon is assistant professor of English at the American University of Beirut. His publications include ""Christine Buci-Glucksmann: Shakespeare and the Archaeology of Shadows,"" along with articles on English Renaissance literature in relation to visual arts. His current research focuses on Shakespeare, religion, and terror.
