{"product_id":"phenomenal-shakespeare-isbn-9780631235491","title":"Phenomenal Shakespeare","description":"In \u003ci\u003ePhenomenal Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e, leading Shakespeare scholar Bruce R. Smith presents an original account for the ways in which Shakespeare’s poems and plays continue to resonate with audiences, readers and scholars because of their engagement with the whole body, not just the reading mind.   \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn original examination of Shakespeare’s appeal written by leading Shakespeare scholar Bruce R. Smith\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains insightful examinations of a single Shakespeare sonnet, \u003ci\u003eVenus and Adonis\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e to model the possibilities of historical phenomenology as a better strategy for critical reading than approaches based on language alone\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePushes beyond traditional treatments of Shakespeare\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn ideal handbook of contemporary approaches to Shakespeare and a celebration of Shakespeare's staying power on stage, on film, and on the page\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue: The Argument xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 As It Likes You 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 How Should One Read a Shakespeare Sonnet? 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Carnal Knowledge 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Touching Moments 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: What Shakespeare Proves 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorks Cited 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePicture Credits 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 199 \u003c\/p\u003e \"I cannot recommend Bruce Smith's book highly enough to any researcher interested in deepening their understanding of historical phenomenology. The first chapter on As You Like It manifests-through an analysis of the modern use of the quotative \"like\" and three contrasting portraits of Bacon, Descartes and Husserl in their private studies of phenomena-the central goals and underpinnings of this theoretical approach.\" (Routledge ABES, 2011)  \u003cp\u003e \"But Smith's pleasure-seeking book, a useful corrective to the worst excesses of historicism is police-like in its own way\". (Times Higher Education Supplement, 25 November 2010)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eBruce R. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is Dean's Professor of English and Professor of Theatre at the University of Southern California. He has published widely on Shakespeare with recent works including \u003ci\u003eThe Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), and \u003ci\u003eThe Acoustic World of Early Modern England\u003c\/i\u003e (1999). A former president of the Shakespeare Association of America, Smith has been a keynote speaker at meetings of Shakespeare and Renaissance organizations in Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Portugal, and the UK. He has also been featured in programs aired on BBC Radio 3, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Public Radio International, and TV 4 London.  Just who \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e “Shakespeare”? And what is it that makes him continue to resonate so powerfully with performers, critics, and scholars?  \u003cp\u003eIn this original examination of Shakespeare’s works and their appeal to our senses, acclaimed Shakespeare scholar Bruce R. Smith asserts that the undiminished staying power of Shakespeare has less to do with ideology than with the distinctive ways in which his poems and plays capture our imagination. \u003ci\u003ePhenomenal Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e moves well beyond traditional treatments of Shakespeare to explore not just the “idea” of the playwright, but the range of sometimes incompatible ideas that Shakespeare represents in the biographical, political, psychological, and ethical arena.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis thought-provoking text provides a critique of contemporary approaches to Shakespeare, while also celebrating the staying power of Shakespeare on stage, on film, and on the page.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"A welcome introduction to what is proving an exciting set of radically new approaches for making sense of the early modern period […] what is really groundbreaking about Smith’s work here is how it demands that we as scholars re-address what it is that we think we are doing when we read these texts.\"\u003cbr\u003e —William N. West, Northwestern University  \u003cp\u003e\"A timely and unique contribution that urges the reorientation of critical attitudes from the \"state the theory, show the theory, restate the theory\" approach towards a method of manifesting or showing\".\u003cbr\u003e —P.A. Skantze, Roehampton University\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989774581989,"sku":"NP9780631235491","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631235491.jpg?v=1761785429","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/phenomenal-shakespeare-isbn-9780631235491","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}