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The Storm at Sea : Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare /

"The Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare counters a tradition of cultural analysis that judges considerations of aesthetic autonomy in the early modern context to be either anachronistic or an index of political disengagement. Pye argues that for a post-theocratic era...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Pye, Christopher, 1953- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, [2015]
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Half Title; Introduction; 1. Early Modern Political Aesthetics; 2. Leonardo's Hand: Mimesis, Sexuality, and the Polis; 3. Shakespeare Distracted: Political Aesthetics from Spanish Tragedy to Hamlet; 4. "To throw out our eyes for brave Othello"; 5. Aesthetics and Absolutism in The Winter's Tale; 6. The Beating Mind: The Tempest in History; 7. Hobbes and the Hydrophobes: The Fate of the Aesthetic in the Time of the State; Notes; Bibliography; Index