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Will the Modernist - Shakespeare and the European Historical Avant-Gardes (Paperback, New edition)
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Will the Modernist - Shakespeare and the European Historical Avant-Gardes (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts, 32
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Why was the Bard of Avon so frequently on the agenda of avant-garde
writers in Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Germany and Ireland?
This volume explores the rich and diverse landscape of
Shakespearean encounters in the tormented aesthetics of pre- and
post-World War I Europe. However manipulated, deformed or
transfigured, the Renaissance dramatist was revived in infinite
guises: verbal, philosophical, visual and linguistic. Was he an
icon to be demolished ruthlessly as the expression of a stale past
or, on the contrary, did his works offer the foundation for new and
provocative artistic explorations? Was he an enemy, a foil, a
mirror? As they cross the borders of European countries and
languages, the essays of this book interrogate Shakespeare's living
presence and chart the multiple facets of his vibrant and
chameleonic afterlives as no single volume has done before. The
exploration of territories situated beyond Anglophone boundaries
partly displaces the Bard from his given niche in English culture
and retrieves lost or marginalized Shakespearean voices. The
annotated bibliographies which complete the volume greatly extend
the territory of scholarship and offer a precious map of
orientation in the maze of critical works.
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