...Corey McEleney This essay critiques the rhetorical and ideological strategies by which aesthetic pleasure has been devalued in both Renaissance and contemporary humanism. Through a close reading of Shakespeare's Richard II , the essay shows how the abjection of vain (both narcissistic and futile...

...Coppélia Kahn Mother of Battles: Volumnia and Her Son in Shakespeare's Coriolanus C OPPELIA KAHN From my mother's sleep I fell into the state. (Jarrell) War is a man's work. The male . .. wants to think that he's fighting for that woman somewhere behind, not up there in the same foxhole with him...

...Steven Swarbrick Freud’s readings of Shakespeare are notorious for their universalizing claims about human sexuality. What is less commonly noticed, and what this article foregrounds, is the asexuality that underwrites psychoanalytic theories of sex. Venus and Adonis shows that Shakespeare’s poem...

... of both sexes out of the sacred Scriptures, and other approoved authors . London: H. Denham, 1582 . Berry, Philippa. Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen . London: Routledge, 1989 . Boose, Lynda E. “The Family in Shakespeare Studies;or—Studies in the Family...

... between Tom and what he calls, "Shakespeare's Book." The narrator hears Tom's recitations and verifies their accuracy: He used to come to the house and ask me to hear him recite. Each time he handed me a volume of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. He neverforgot to do that. He wanted me to sit...

... identified the individual’s precise relation to the head occupied by the monarch.3 Within this histori- cal framework, Shakespeare’s protagonists strike us as most individual precisely when they are least individuated in early modern...

....” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 6.2 & 3 ( 1994 ): 296 –312. duBois, Page. Sappho is Burning . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995 . Fineman, Joel. Shakespeare's Perjured Eye: The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets . Berkeley, U of California P, 1988 . Fried, Debra...

...Frances E. Dolan Copyright © 1995 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1995 Works Cited Adelman Janet . Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays, “Hamlet” to “The Tempest.” New York : Routledge , 1992...

... of an unmitigated antagonism underlying human social relations also informs Jacques Derrida’s reading of Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice (On Cosmopolitanism). As readers well know, the play tells the story of a dispute over a debt...

... Identity and the ‘Exchange of Women.’ ” 4 . 1 : 40 - 75 . Hayles N. Katherine . “ Gender Encoding in Fluid Mechanics: Masculine Channels and Feminine Flows .” 4 . 2 : 16 - 44 . Kahn Coppélia . “Mother of Battles: Volumnia and Her Son in Shakespeare's Coriolanus” 4 . 2 : 154 - 70...

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... pertinent here is Freeman’s queer reading of Hamlet in the context of her notions (mentioned above) of temporal drag and chrononormativity: “Centered on a protagonist who eschews the marriage plot or even its alternative, the revenge plot, Shakespeare’s play freezes narrative movement, political...

... , 1974 . Newman Karen . “ Portia's Ring: Unruly Women and Structures of Exchange .” Shakespeare Quarterly 38 ( 1987 ): 19 - 33 . Pollock Griselda . Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and the Histories of Art . New York : Routledge , 1988 . Richman Michèle...

... some copies of the 1598 edition, we find a striking visual image of the corporation’s networked and territorializing form: Edward Wright’s famous world map, otherwise known as the Molyneux map and mentioned by Shakespeare in his...

... and Leipzig, 1794 . Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare, William. The Complete Plays . Vol. 2 . London: G. Bell and Sons, 1910 . Shell, Marc. Polio and Its Aftermath . Cambridge: Harvard up. Forthcoming, 2004 . Specter, Michael. “Rethinking the Brain: How the Songs of Canaries Upset the Fundamental...

... had the now obsolete sense of “to bring to an end; to complete, conclude,” both senses deriving from the Middle French finer . And the noun, fine , also has these two meanings: the sense of “ending” is still alive in Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well , when Helena declares, at the end...

..., John. “Crisis, Crisis, Crisis: Big Media and the Humanities Workforce.” 24.3: 127–59. McEleney, Corey. “Bonfire of the Vanities: Pleasure, Theory, Shakespeare.” 24.1: 137–68. Ophir, Adi. “The Sciences...

... and speare; McRuer and Mollow; Punish, his research there never Shakespeare; Shakespeare, asked about “justification” or Gillepsie-Sells, and Davies...

.... The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 . Ed. Jacques-Alain Miller. Trans. Dennis Porter. New York: Norton, 1997 . Shakespeare, William. Macbeth . Norton Critical Edition. New York: Norton, 2004 . lee edelman...

... historical perspective, the question I ask is: how does debt in the form of a human body trouble the matter of repayment? What are we to make of the enslaved African who was used as collateral for a mortgage, who was always marked, in Shakespeare’s phrase, as a price for “a pound of flesh”? How are we...