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- Book Title
- Volpone'S Bastards
- Publication Name
- Volpone's Bastards : Theorising Jonson's City Comedy
- Title
- Volpone'S Bastards
- Subtitle
- Theorising Jonson's City Comedy
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781474452496
- ISBN
- 9781474452496
- Publisher
- Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Release Date
- 31/08/2019
- Release Year
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Item Length
- 6 in
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism
- Subject
- Drama, Shakespeare, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 8.9 in
- Item Weight
- 10.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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Brings Ben Jonson to the twenty-first century by reading Volpone through psychoanalysis, poststructuralism and Marxism Through studying Volpone's three bastard children the dwarf, the androgyne and the eunuch from the theoretical argument of Freud, Lacan, Derrida and Foucault, this book discusses how Jonson's comedies are built upon the tension between death, castration and nothingness on one hand, and the comic slippage of identities in the city on the other. This study understands Jonson, first and foremost, as a comedy writer, linking his work with modern film comedies such as the Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks and Monty Python. It is a new approach to Jonsonian studies, responding to the current Marxist-Lacanian studies of literature, film and culture made popular by scholars such as Slavoj zizek, Alenka Zupancic and Mladen Dolar. While the book pays close attention to the historical context of Jonson's time, it brings him to the twenty-first century by discussing early modern comedies with modern critical theories and film. Key Features Reads Ben Jonson in fresh ways from various theoretical perspectives including psychoanalysis, poststructuralism and MarxismShows readers how the dwarf, the androgyne, the eunuch and the parasite are instrumental to the understanding of Volpone and other Jonson's comedies including Epicoene , The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair Provides readers with a new understanding of Jonson's comedy, early modern city comedy and the difference between comedy and tragedyCompares Jonson with other early modern plays such as Shakespeare's King Richard III and Twelfth Night , Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside , and Massinger's The Renegado Compares Jonson's comedies with modern film comedies such as the Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks and Monty Python
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Publisher
Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
ISBN-10
1474452493
ISBN-13
9781474452496
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25038371789
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Volpone's Bastards : Theorising Jonson's City Comedy
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Drama, Shakespeare, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6 in
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Width
8.9 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Pr2622
Reviews
Isaac Hui's study presents us with a passionate and highly original approach to reading and thinking about Jonson's comedies. Taking under his critical lens - primarily, but not exclusively - Volpone and its 'bastards', the book takes us on a wide and most rewarding journey through many different and very topical issues and considerations., Hui's is an ambitious project, with its aim not only to develop a new, psychoanalytic reading of Volpone, but also to explore how such a reading illuminates Jonson's comedies and their precise critique more broadly. It is unapologetically a work ofcultural theory, even as it evidences attention to historical and literary criticism.
Table of Content
1 Introduction: Jonson and Comedy 2 'For pleasing imitation of greater men's action' - Nano the Anamorphic Ape 3 'Think me cold, frozen, and impotent, and so report me?' - Volpone and his 'Castrone' Complex 4 'The case appears too liquid' - The Two Sides of Androgyno 5 'I fear I shall begin to grow in love with my dear self': the Parasite and his 'Mirror Stage' 6 Jonson's Comedy of Bastardy 7 Conclusion: 'Fools, they are the only Nation' - Re-reading the interlude and Beyond
Copyright Date
2018
Dewey Decimal
822/.309
Dewey Edition
23
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