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Shake­speare and mon­ey
The essays col­lect­ed in this vol­ume are evi­dence that in con­tem­po­rary par­lance the notion of ‘mon­ey’ is often con­nect­ed with the idea of glob­al econ­o­my and ‘cul­tur­al glob­al­iza­tion’: they prompt aware­ness of the grow­ing impor­tance of col­lapsed trade bar­ri­ers, but also of the close and com­plex rela­tion­ship between eco­nom­ic and polit­i­cal pow­er and cul­ture in a his­tor­i­cal per­spec­tive.
Shakespeare’s char­ac­ters and sto­ries played an impor­tant role in his own time when a new sys­tem of mer­can­tile econ­o­my was devel­op­ing out of geo­graph­i­cal dis­cov­er­ies, and Com­mon Law was try­ing to keep pace with cur­rent debates and reg­u­la­tions aimed at facil­i­tat­ing com­merce. It is not sur­pris­ing that eco­nom­ic themes, motifs and lan­guage rank high among the press­ing cul­tur­al con­cerns to which Shake­speare gave shape in his works. This rapid, dra­mat­ic rise to promi­nence of eco­nom­ic ques­tions is reflect­ed in the per­va­sive mon­e­tary sub­text of Shakespeare’s lan­guage and the baf­fling ubiq­ui­tous­ness of eco­nom­ic metaphors in his plays and poems.
Today, glob­al­iza­tion has con­tributed to move to the fore­ground the inter­cul­tur­al dimen­sion to the repro­duc­tion and con­sump­tion of Shake­speare, a process that is clear­ly reg­is­tered in the grow­ing rel­e­vance tak­en on by the ‘new’ eco­nom­ic crit­i­cism and the new writ­ings of his unique­ly cos­mopoli­tan after­life.
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Nar­cis­sis­tic Moth­ers in Mod­ernist Lit­er­a­ture: New Per­spec­tives on Moth­er­hood in the Works of D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Vir­ginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys
Nar­cis­sis­tic moth­ers are an impor­tant motif in mod­ernist lit­er­a­ture. Trac­ing its appear­ance in the works of writ­ers such as D.H. Lawrence and Vir­ginia Woolf, this book ques­tions the dichoto­mous image of either benev­o­lent or suf­fo­cat­ing moth­er, which has per­vad­ed reli­gion, art and lit­er­a­ture for cen­turies. Instead of focus­ing on the moth­er-child dyad as char­ac­ter­ized pri­mar­i­ly by mater­nal dom­i­na­tion and the child‘ s sub­mis­sion, Marie Géral­dine Rademach­er insists on the def­i­n­i­tion­al nuances of the term »nar­cis­sism« and con­sid­ers the polit­i­cal and socio-eco­nom­ic con­text of the time in shap­ing these women’s nar­cis­sis­tic behav­ior. The study thus inspires a more pos­i­tive (re)reading of the pro­tag­o­nists.
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