Description: Further DetailsTitle: Untimely Matter in the Time of ShakespeareCondition: NewISBN-10: 081222146XEAN: 9780812221466ISBN: 9780812221466Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/25/2011Description: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The New Historicism of the 1980s and early 1990s was preoccupied with the fashioning of early modern subjects. But, Jonathan Gil Harris notes, the pronounced tendency now is to engage with objects. From textiles to stage beards to furniture, objects are read by literary critics as closely as literature used to be. For a growing number of Renaissance and Shakespeare scholars, the play is no longer the thing: the thing is the thing. Curiously, the current wave of "thing studies" has largely avoided posing questions of time. How do we understand time through a thing? What is the time of a thing? In Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare, Harris challenges the ways we conventionally understand physical objects and their relation to history. Turning to Renaissance theories of matter, Harris considers the profound untimeliness of things, focusing particularly on Shakespeare's stage materials. He reveals that many "Renaissance" objects were actually survivals from an older time—the medieval monastic properties that, post-Reformation, were recycled as stage props in the public playhouses, or the old Roman walls of London, still visible in Shakespeare's time. Then, as now, old objects were inherited, recycled, repurposed; they were polytemporal or palimpsested. By treating matter as dynamic and temporally hybrid, Harris addresses objects in their futurity, not just in their encapsulation of the past. Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare is a bold study that puts the matériel—the explosive, world-changing potential—back into a "material culture" that has been too often understood as inert stuff.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Jonathan Gil HarrisGenre: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare
Title: Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare
ISBN-10: 081222146X
EAN: 9780812221466
ISBN: 9780812221466
Release Date: 02/25/2011
Release Year: 2011
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Shakespeare, Subjects & Themes / Historical events, General, Europe / Great Britain / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year: 2011
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.6 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History
Author: Jonathan Gil Harris
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
