Fran Gleyzon &

Broschiertes Buch

Shakespeare's Spiral

Tracing the Snail in King Lear and Renaissance Painting

Beschreibung

This book explores the figure of the snail in Shakespeare and in Renaissance painting. From the emergence of the gastropod object/subject in the text of King Lear and its iconic interface in Giovanni Bellini's painting Allegory of Falsehood, this study follows the path traced by the snail throughout the Őuvre.

Autor

François-Xavier P. Gleyzon

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780761841371
• ISBN-10: 0761841377
• Artikelnr.: 28114203

Rezensionen

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