Description
Book SynopsisShakespeare and Posthumanist Theory charts challenges in the field of Shakespeare studies to the assumption that the category human is real, stable, or worthy of privileging in discussions of the playwright's work. Drawing on a variety of methodologies cognitive theory, systems theory, animal studies, ecostudies, the new materialisms the volume investigates the world of Shakespeare's plays and poems in order to represent more thoroughly its variety, its ethics of inclusion, and its resistance to human triumphalism and exceptionalism. Karen Raber, a leading scholar in the field, clearly and cogently guides the reader through complex theoretical terrain, providing fresh, exciting readings of plays including
Othello,
The Tempest,
Titus Andronicus,
Troilus and Cressida and
Henry IV Part 1.
Trade ReviewAn excellent orientation to this theory and practice that will interest multiple audiences. In no-nonsense prose, Raber sets out the intellectual genealogy of posthumanism… * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: We Have Never Been Humanist: Genealogies of Posthumanism Chapter 2: Posthuman Cosmography Chapter 3: Bodies and Minds Chapter 4: Neither Fish nor Fowl Chapter 5: TechnoBard Chapter 6: Post-posthumanism? Back to the Future
Notes Bibliography Index
