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The Shakespeare Multiverse: Fandom as Literary Praxis argues that
fandom offers new models for a twenty-first century reading
practice that embraces affective pleasure and subjective
self-positioning as a means of understanding a text. Part critical
study, part source book, The Shakespeare Multiverse suggests that
fannish contributions to the ongoing expansion of the object that
we call Shakespeare is best imagined as a multiverse, encompassing
different worlds that consolidate the various perspectives that
different fans bring to Shakespeare. Our concept of the multiverse
redefines 'Shakespeare' not as a singular body of work, but as
space where a process of inquiry and cultural memory - memories in
the making, and those already made - is influenced and shaped by
the technologies available to the reader. Characteristic of fandom
is an intertextual reading strategy that we term cyborg reading, an
approach that accommodates the varied elements of identity,
politics, culture, sexuality, and race that shape the ways that
Shakespeare is explored and appropriated throughout fannish reading
communities. The Shakespeare Multiverse intersects literary theory,
fan studies, and popular culture as it traverses Shakespeare fandom
from the 1623 Folio to the age of the Internet, exploring the
different textures of fan affect, from those who firmly uphold
fidelity to the text to those who sit on the very edge of the
fandom, threatening to cross over into Shakespearean anti-fandom.
By recognizing the literary value of fandom, The Shakespeare
Multiverse offers a new approach to literary criticism that
challenges the limits of hegemonic authority and recognizes the
value of a joyfully speculative critical praxis.
Originally published in 1955 Atmospheric Turbulence examines
dynamic meteorology and the fundamental part it plays in the
overall science of meteorology. The book examines the theory of
atmospheric turbulence as a more mathematically developed area than
largescale motions of the atmosphere and examines its significance
in economic, military and industrial spheres. The book focuses on
the effect and importance of atmospheric turbulence, not only to
meteorologists, but the designers of large aircraft. The book
addresses the effects of turbulence and the properties of the
atmosphere that can be found closer to the ground. This book will
be of interest to atmospheric physicists and meteorologists.
This innovative collection explores uses of Shakespeare in a wide
variety of 21st century contexts, including business manuals,
non-literary scholarship, database aggregation, social media,
gaming, and creative criticism. Essays in this volume demonstrate
that users' critical and creative uses of the dramatist's works
position contemporary issues of race, power, identity, and
authority in new networks that redefine Shakespeare and
reconceptualize the ways in which he is processed in both scholarly
and popular culture. While The Shakespeare User contributes to the
burgeoning corpus of critical works on digital and Internet
Shakespeares, this volume looks beyond the study of Shakespeare
artifacts to the system of use and users that constitute the
Shakespeare network. This reticular understanding of Shakespeare
use expands scholarly forays into non-academic practices, digital
discourse communities, and creative critical works manifest via
YouTube, Twitter, blogs, databases, websites, and popular fiction.
This innovative collection explores uses of Shakespeare in a wide
variety of 21st century contexts, including business manuals,
non-literary scholarship, database aggregation, social media,
gaming, and creative criticism. Essays in this volume demonstrate
that users' critical and creative uses of the dramatist's works
position contemporary issues of race, power, identity, and
authority in new networks that redefine Shakespeare and
reconceptualize the ways in which he is processed in both scholarly
and popular culture. While The Shakespeare User contributes to the
burgeoning corpus of critical works on digital and Internet
Shakespeares, this volume looks beyond the study of Shakespeare
artifacts to the system of use and users that constitute the
Shakespeare network. This reticular understanding of Shakespeare
use expands scholarly forays into non-academic practices, digital
discourse communities, and creative critical works manifest via
YouTube, Twitter, blogs, databases, websites, and popular fiction.
Originally published in 1955 Atmospheric Turbulence examines
dynamic meteorology and the fundamental part it plays in the
overall science of meteorology. The book examines the theory of
atmospheric turbulence as a more mathematically developed area than
largescale motions of the atmosphere and examines its significance
in economic, military and industrial spheres. The book focuses on
the effect and importance of atmospheric turbulence, not only to
meteorologists, but the designers of large aircraft. The book
addresses the effects of turbulence and the properties of the
atmosphere that can be found closer to the ground. This book will
be of interest to atmospheric physicists and meteorologists.
Examines Shakespeare fragments as agents of appropriation Drawing
on new materialism and object-oriented ontology, Variable Objects
proposes that Shakespeare is a vibrant object replete with a
variable energy that accounts for its infinite meaning-making
capacity. Using critical race theory, object oriented feminism,
performance studies, Global Shakespeares, media studies and game
theory, the collection's essays explore the dialogic relationship
between the Shakespeare object and its appropriation. Each chapter
demonstrates that instead of moving away from the source of
appropriation, an object-oriented approach can centralise
Shakespeare without the constraints of outdated notions of
fidelity. Highlighting the variable materiality inherent in
Shakespeare, the collection foregrounds the political ecologies of
literary objects as a new methodology for adaptation studies.
Examines Shakespeare fragments as agents of appropriation Drawing
on new materialism and object-oriented ontology, Variable Objects
proposes that Shakespeare is a vibrant object replete with a
variable energy that accounts for its infinite meaning-making
capacity. Using critical race theory, object oriented feminism,
performance studies, Global Shakespeares, media studies and game
theory, the collection's essays explore the dialogic relationship
between the Shakespeare object and its appropriation. Each chapter
demonstrates that instead of moving away from the source of
appropriation, an object-oriented approach can centralise
Shakespeare without the constraints of outdated notions of
fidelity. Highlighting the variable materiality inherent in
Shakespeare, the collection foregrounds the political ecologies of
literary objects as a new methodology for adaptation studies.
Appropriating Shakespeare: A Cultural History of Pyramus and Thisbe
argues that the vibrant, transformative history of Shakespeare's
play-within-a-play from A Midsummer Night's Dream across four
centuries allows us to see the way in which Shakespeare is used to
both create and critique emergent cultural trends. Because of its
careful distinction between "good" and "bad" art, Pyramus and
Thisbe's playful meditation on the foolishness of over-reaching
theatrical ambition is repeatedly appropriated by artists seeking
to parody contemporary aesthetics, resulting in an ongoing
assessment of Shakespeare's value to the time. Beginning with the
play's own creation as an appropriation of Ovid, designed to keep
the rowdy clown in check, Appropriating Shakespeare is a
wide-ranging study that charts Pyramus and Thisbe's own
metamorphosis through opera, novel, television, and, of course,
theatre. This unique history illustrates Pyramus and Thisbe's
ability to attract like-minded, experimental, genre-bending artists
who use the text as a means of exploring the value of their own
individual craft. Ultimately, what this history reveals is that, in
excerpt, Pyramus and Thisbe affirms the place of artist as both
consumer and producer of Shakespeare.
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