Timothy Day

Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt

Adapt, Interpret, Mutate

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together research on Shakespeare, biosemiotics, ecocriticism, epigenetics and actor network theory as it explores the space between nature and narrative in an effort to understand how human bodies are stories told in the emergent language of evolution, and how those bodies became storytellers themselves.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9780367707903
• ISBN-10: 036770790X
• Artikelnr.: 67823301

Autorenporträt

Timothy Ryan Day teaches Shakespeare, Ecocriticism, and Writing at Saint Louis University's Madrid campus. He was born in Oklahoma, grew up in Chicago, and lives in Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1- An Education in Naturecultures: Review of Literature on
Ecocriticism, Biosemiotics, and Shakespeare
Chapter 2- With Parted Eye: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard Powers'
Orfeo, and Biosemiotics
Chapter 3- Consuming the Slaughter: Applause, Bullfighting, and Fascism in
Shakespeare's Hamlet and Richard Wright's Pagan Spain
Chapter 4- Co-conspirators: invoking Macbeth in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and
Crake
Chapter 5- Migrations: Butterflies and Shakespeare in Barabara
Kingsolvers's Flight Behavior
Chapter 6- Mutations and Interpretations: From the Tempest to La Otra
Tempestad