| Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign Contributor(s): Tatlow, Antony (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822327538 ISBN-13: 9780822327530 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $102.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2001 Annotation: "This work by Antony Tatlow is timely, original, and provocatively and lucidly written. Its theoretical and analytic sophistication makes it a welcome exemplum of East-West comparative study--one that rings with the authority of a seasoned eyewitness no less than that of an erudite thinker."--Anthony C. Yu, University of Chicago "An interesting and commendable contribution to Shakespeare studies and comparative literature. Tatlow has a cogent, complex, and distinctive point of view."--Hugh H. Grady, author of "Shakespeare and Modernity: Early Modern to Millennium |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Shakespeare |
| Dewey: 822.33 |
| LCCN: 2001023233 |
| Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions |
| Physical Information: 1.15" H x 6.26" W x 9.56" (1.51 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign renowned Brecht scholar Antony Tatlow uses drama to investigate cultural crossings and to show how intercultural readings or performances question the settled assumptions we bring to interpretations of familiar texts. Through a "textual anthropology" Tatlow examines the interplay between interpretations of Shakespeare and readings of Brecht, whose work he rereads in the light of theories of the social subject from Nietzsche to Derrida and in relation to East Asian culture, as well as practices within Chinese and Japanese theater that shape their versions of Shakespearean drama. Reflecting on how, why, and to what effect knowledges and styles of performance pollinate across cultures, Tatlow demonstrates that the employment of one culture's material in the context of another defamiliarizes the conventions of representation in an act that facilitates access to what previously had been culturally repressed. By reading the intercultural, Tatlow shows, we are able not only to historicize the effects of those repressions that create a social unconscious but also gain access to what might otherwise have remained invisible. This remarkable study will interest students of cultural interaction and aesthetics, as well as readers interested in theater, Shakespeare, Brecht, China, and Japan. |