| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 521 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 45 |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 45.
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| Contents |
pt. I. Sonnet form and sonnet sequence. 1. The value of the sonnets / Stephen Booth -- 2. Formal pleasure in the sonnets / Helen Vendler -- 3. The incomplete narrative of Shakespeare's sonnets / James Schiffer -- 4. Revolution in Shakes-speares sonnets / Margreta de Grazia -- pt. II. Shakespeare and his predecessors. 5. The refusal to be judged in Petrarch and Shakespeare / Richard Strier -- 6. "Dressing old words new"? Re-evaluating the "Delian structure" / Heather Dubrow -- 7. Confounded by winter : speeding time in Shakespeare's sonnets / Dympna Callaghan -- pt. III. Editorial theory and biographical inquiry : editing the sonnets. 8. Shake-speares sonnets, Shakespeare's connets, and Shakespearean biography / Richard Dutton -- 9. Mr. who he? / Stephen Orgel -- 10. Editing the sonnets / Colin Burrow -- 11. William Empson and the sonnets / Lars Engle -- pt. IV. The sonnets in manuscript and print. 12. Shakespeare's sonnets and the manuscript circulation of texts in early modern England / Arthur F. Marotti -- 13. The sonnets and book history / Marcy L. North -- pt. V. Models of desire in the sonnets. 14. Shakespeare's love of objects / Douglas Trevor -- 15. Tender distance : Latinity and desire in Shakespeare's sonnets / Bradin Cormack -- 16. Fickle glass / Rayna Kalas -- 17. "Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame" : mapping the "emotional regime" of Shakespeare's sonnets / Jyotsna G. Singh -- pt. VI. Ideas of darkness in the sonnets. 18. Rethinking Shakespeare's dark lady / Ilona Bell -- 19. Flesh colors and Shakespeare's sonnets / Elizabeth D. Harvey -- pt. VII. Memory and repetition in the sonnets. 20. Voicing the young man : memory, forgetting, and subjectivity in the procreation sonnets / Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. -- 21. "Full character'd" : competing forms of memory in Shakespeare's sonnets / Amanda Watson -- pt. VIII. The sonnets in/and the plays. 22. Halting sonnets : poetry and theater in Much ado about nothing / Patrick Cheney -- 23. Personal identity and vicarious experience in Shakespeare's sonnets / William Flesch -- pt. IX. The sonnets and A lover's complaint. 24. "Making the quadrangle round" : alchemy's protean forms in Shakespeare's sonnets and A lover's complaint / Margaret Healy -- 25. The enigma of A lover's complaint / Catherine Bates -- Appendix: the 1609 text of Shakespeare's sonnets and A lover's complaint |
| Summary |
This Companion represents the myriad ways of thinking about the remarkable achievement of Shakespeare's sonnets. An authoritative reference guide and extended introduction to Shakespeare's sonnets. Contains more than 20 newly-commissioned essays by both established and younger scholars. Considers the form, sequence, content, literary context, editing and printing of the sonnets. Shows how the sonnets provide a mirror in which cultures can read their own critical biases. Informed by the latest theoretical, cultural and archival work |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Content as of: Mar. 14, 2008; title from title screen |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnets.
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| SUBJECT |
Sonnets (Shakespeare, William) fast |
| Subject |
Sonnets, English -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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Sonnets, English
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Sonnetten.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schoenfeldt, Michael Carl.
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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| ISBN |
1405121556 |
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9781405121552 |
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9781405121552 |
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9781405172004 |
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1405172002 |
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9781405177412 |
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1405177411 |
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9780470997017 |
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047099701X |
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