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Radical Tragedy - Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, Third Edition (Hardcover,... Radical Tragedy - Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, Third Edition (Hardcover, 3rd ed. 2010)
Jonathan Dollimore
R3,723 Discovery Miles 37 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When it was first published, "Radical Tragedy" was hailed as a groundbreaking reassessment of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. An engaged reading of the past with compelling contemporary significance, "Radical Tragedy" remains a landmark study of Renaissance drama and a classic of cultural materialist criticism. The corrected and reissued third edition of this critically acclaimed work includes a candid new Preface by the author and features a Foreword by Terry Eagleton.

Political Shakespeare - Essays in Cultural Materialism (Paperback, 2nd edition): Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield Political Shakespeare - Essays in Cultural Materialism (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield
R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The new wave of cultural materialists in Britain and new historicists in the United States here join forces to depose the sacred icon of the "eternal bard" and argue for a Shakespeare who meditates and exploits political, cultural and ideological forces. Ten years on, this second edition presents additional essays by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield. -- .

Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture (Hardcover): Jonathan Dollimore Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture (Hardcover)
Jonathan Dollimore
R4,562 Discovery Miles 45 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


In this strikingly original work, cultural critic Jonathan Dollimore once again demonstrates his remarkable ability to take on the complex and reveal its relevance with eloquence and grace.
Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a rich testament to our eternal preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire.
An immensely important book, this is a challenge to the way we understand desire, sexuality, and the very notion of identity.

The Demonic - Literature and Experience (Paperback, New): Ewan Fernie The Demonic - Literature and Experience (Paperback, New)
Ewan Fernie; Foreword by Jonathan Dollimore
R1,192 Discovery Miles 11 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Are we either good or bad, and do we really know the difference? Why do we want what we cannot have, and even to be what we're not? Can we desire others without wanting to possess them? Can we open to others and not risk possession ourselves? And where, in these cases, do we draw the line? Ewan Fernie argues that the demonic tradition in literature offers a key to our most agonised and intimate experiences. The Demonic ranges across the breadth of Western culture, engaging with writers as central and various as Luther, Shakespeare, Hegel, Dostoevsky, Melville and Mann. A powerful foreword by Jonathan Dollimore brings out its implications as an intellectual and stylistic breakthrough into new ways of writing criticism. Fernie unfolds an intense and personal vision, not just of Western modernity, but of identity, morality and sex. As much as it's concerned with the great works, this is a book about life.

Desire - A Memoir (Paperback): Jonathan Dollimore Desire - A Memoir (Paperback)
Jonathan Dollimore
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R384 R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Save R22 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Desire: A Memoir is a hybrid of autobiography, meditation, and philosophy that explores the existential sources of his writing. Effortlessly blending the tragic and comic, Dollimore's unique voice relates a life haunted and torn by loss, and the at once intensely personal yet universal experience of suffering and longing. In this moving memoir Jonathan Dollimore recounts a life dedicated to understanding the delight and disorder of human desire. He writes honestly and movingly about his teenage attraction to risk and danger; of wounding motorcycle crashes and lucky escapes; of sexual curiosity as a flight from boredom; of suicidal depression and sexual ecstasy, of his discovery of love and literature and his adventures cruising in the gay subcultures of late twentieth-century New York, Brighton, and Sydney. For more than thirty years Dollimore has been one of contemporary culture's most influential critics of politics, literature, and sexuality. At the University of Sussex he pioneered cultural materialism in early modern and literary studies and gay studies in education, including co-founding there the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence. His landmark books include Radical Tragedy (1984), with Alan Sinfield, Political Shakespeare (1985) and Sexual Dissidence (1991). In later books like Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture (1999) and Sex Literature and Censorship (2001) he turned his attention to a fresh interrogation of those dark, recalcitrant elements of desire and mortality that resist utopian transformation. He has held chairs at Sussex and York and lectured and taught throughout the world.

The Demonic - Literature and Experience (Hardcover, New): Ewan Fernie The Demonic - Literature and Experience (Hardcover, New)
Ewan Fernie; Foreword by Jonathan Dollimore
R3,999 Discovery Miles 39 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Are we either good or bad, and do we really know the difference? Why do we want what we cannot have, and even to be what we're not? Can we desire others without wanting to possess them? Can we open to others and not risk possession ourselves? And where, in these cases, do we draw the line? Ewan Fernie argues that the demonic tradition in literature offers a key to our most agonised and intimate experiences. The Demonic ranges across the breadth of Western culture, engaging with writers as central and various as Luther, Shakespeare, Hegel, Dostoevsky, Melville and Mann. A powerful foreword by Jonathan Dollimore brings out its implications as an intellectual and stylistic breakthrough into new ways of writing criticism. Fernie unfolds an intense and personal vision, not just of Western modernity, but of identity, morality and sex. As much as it's concerned with the great works, this is a book about life.

Death, Desire And Loss In Western Culture (Paperback): Jonathan Dollimore Death, Desire And Loss In Western Culture (Paperback)
Jonathan Dollimore
R1,197 Discovery Miles 11 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


In this strikingly original work, cultural critic Jonathan Dollimore once again demonstrates his remarkable ability to take on the complex and reveal its relevance with eloquence and grace.
Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a rich testament to our eternal preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire.
An immensely important book, this is a challenge to the way we understand desire, sexuality, and the very notion of identity.

The Selected Plays of John Webster - The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi, The Devil's Law Case (Paperback): Jonathan... The Selected Plays of John Webster - The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi, The Devil's Law Case (Paperback)
Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield
R1,352 Discovery Miles 13 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The plays of John Webster are read and seen more widely today than at any time since they were written - provoking much disagreement in the process. The continuing debate about his political, religious and philosophical attitudes, his formal skills and the importance of his plays for understanding the changing culture in which they were written, make Webster the most controversial of all Jacobean dramatists. This volume includes freshly collated, fully annotated and cross-referenced texts of his three best-known plays, together with introductions and a useful critical bibliography.

Sexual Dissidence (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Jonathan Dollimore Sexual Dissidence (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Jonathan Dollimore
R1,764 Discovery Miles 17 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Why is homosexuality socially marginal yet symbolically central? Why, in other words, is it so strangely integral to the very societies which obsessively denounce it, and why is it history - history rather than human nature - which has produced this paradoxical position? These are just some of the questions explored in this wide-ranging study of sexual dissidence which returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and develop issues of postmodernity. In the process it brilliantly links writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Gide, Wilde, and Genet, and cultural critics as different as St. Augustine, Freud, Fanon, Foucault, and Monique Wittig. So Freud's theory of perversion is discovered to be more challenging than either his critics or his advocates usually allow, especially when approached via the earlier period's archetypal perverts, the religious heretic and the wayward woman, Satan and Eve. The book further shows how the literature, histories, and sub-cultures of sexual and gender dissidence prove remarkably illuminating for current debates in literary theory, psychoanalysis, and cultural materialism. It includes chapters on transgression and its containment, contemporary theories of sexual difference, homophobia, the gay sensibility, transvestite literature in the culture and theatre of Renaissance England, homosexuality, and race.

Sexual Dissidence (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Jonathan Dollimore Sexual Dissidence (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Jonathan Dollimore
R941 Discovery Miles 9 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Why is homosexuality socially marginal yet symbolically central? Why, in other words, is it so strangely integral to the very societies which obsessively denounce it, and why is it history - history rather than human nature - which has produced this paradoxical position? These are just some of the questions explored in this wide-ranging study of sexual dissidence which returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and develop issues of postmodernity. In the process it brilliantly links writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Gide, Wilde, and Genet, and cultural critics as different as St. Augustine, Freud, Fanon, Foucault, and Monique Wittig. So Freud's theory of perversion is discovered to be more challenging than either his critics or his advocates usually allow, especially when approached via the earlier period's archetypal perverts, the religious heretic and the wayward woman, Satan and Eve. The book further shows how the literature, histories, and sub-cultures of sexual and gender dissidence prove remarkably illuminating for current debates in literary theory, psychoanalysis, and cultural materialism. It includes chapters on transgression and its containment, contemporary theories of sexual difference, homophobia, the gay sensibility, transvestite literature in the culture and theatre of Renaissance England, homosexuality, and race.

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