Shakespeare and contemporary fiction
Subtitle: theorizing foundling and lyric plots
By: Barbara L. Estrin
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781611493696; 9781611493702
Subjects: History and criticism; Influence; Theory; Fiction
Table of contents: title: Contemporary pasts; title: Unraveling mythical order in Caryl Phillips's The nature of blood; title: The Irigarayan "third language" in Liz Jensen's Ark baby; title: Trapped in the "negative gradient": traumatic dis-membering in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz; title: "These weeping eyes, those seeing tears": the flow of memory from fugitive pieces to Shakespeare; title: Shakespearean presents; title: Turning gender and plot in The merchant of Venice; title: "God me such usage send": Desdemona's lyric response in Othello; title: "I am heir to my affection": re-visioning family and love in The winter's tale; title: Afterward: the myths redeployed.