...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...

... 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...

... at Duke University and author of Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres (Routledge, 1986), The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750–1850 (Princeton University Press, 2007), and, with Nancy Armstrong, The Imaginary Puritan: Literature...

....” 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...

... -xxxii. ———. Orientalism . New York: Pantheon, 1978 . ———. The World, the Text, and the Critic . Cambridge, ma: Harvard up, 1983 . Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice . New York: Penguin, 2000 . Venuti, Lawrence. Introduction. Critical Inquiry 27.2 (Winter 2001 ): 170 -72...

... 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 . Lichtenberg Ettinger Bracha . “ Matrix and Metramorphosis .” 4 . 5 : 176 - 208 . Lyon Janet...

... of a Psychologist . Trans. Ludovici Anthony . Edenburg : Foulis , 1911 . Rival Ned . Tabac, miroir du temps . Paris : Librairie Académique Perrin , 1981 . Sartre Jean Paul . L'Être et le néant: Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique . Paris : Gallimard , 1943 . Shakespeare...

... student of Shakespeare and Nietzsche” (Stern). 29 I’ve placed idealist within parentheses here in order to remind us that, despite appearances, Marx and Engels’s remark indicts not philosophy tout court , but rather the kind of idealism they associate with the Young Hegelians in general...

..." as "the law that regulates the socio-cultural economy" and avoids both a victimizing discourse and a problematic transcendental male subject. She ranges across the centuries, from Shakespeare's sonnets to Wycherley's plays to Dickens's novels analyzing relations between men: Rene Girard, Freud, and Levi...

... University, New Brunswick. He is the author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580–1630 (Oxford, 2006) and Shakespeare's Double Helix (Continuum, 2007), as well as the editor of The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern...

..., 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 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...

... 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...

... taking part in a very long tradition, offering variations , as it were, of a theme, the theatrum mundi , that has a long existence in philosophy and art from the Stoics to Shakespeare and Descartes, and indeed in Hegel, Marx, Freud. On the other hand, returning to the aporia that is widely identified...