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Life in the Sonnets: Reading and Performance
Contributor(s): Fuller, David (Author), Fernie, Ewan (Editor), Palfrey, Simon (Editor)
ISBN: 1847064531     ISBN-13: 9781847064530
Publisher: Continuum
OUR PRICE:   $133.65  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Shakespeare
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
Dewey: 821.3
LCCN: 2010029091
Series: Shakespeare Now!
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.70 lbs) 134 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:
Current norms of literary criticism tend to ignore ways in which literary experiences relate to life experience, and some ways in which literary experiences can be intensified and deepened. In this vibrant and controversial book, David Fuller seeks to recover the life in Shakespeare's sonnets, arguing that feeling and emotion, often ignored in criticism, should be central. He offers two ways of attempting this - first engaging with the poems through kinds of feeling fundamental to the young man sequence as presented in other kinds of writing and art - philosophy (Plato), poetry and visual art (Michelangelo), fiction (Mann), music (Britten), and film (Jarman). He then discusses reading the poems aloud, showing that dwelling in the words without translating them into other terms brings out their beauty and expressivity, and leads to fuller understanding of their form, structure, and meaning.