Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political TheologyUniversity of Chicago Press, 11 Feb 2014 - 296 halaman Turning to the potent idea of political theology to recover the strange mix of political and religious thinking during the Renaissance, this bracing study reveals in the works of Shakespeare and his sources the figure of the citizen-saint, who represents at once divine messenger and civil servant, both norm and exception. Embodied by such diverse personages as Antigone, Paul, Barabbas, Shylock, Othello, Caliban, Isabella, and Samson, the citizen-saint is a sacrificial figure: a model of moral and aesthetic extremity who inspires new regimes of citizenship with his or her death and martyrdom. Among the many questions Julia Reinhard Lupton attempts to answer under the rubric of the citizen-saint are: how did states of emergency, acts of sovereign exception, and Messianic anticipations lead to new forms of religious and political law? What styles of universality were implied by the abject state of the pure creature, at sea in a creation abandoned by its creator? And how did circumcision operate as both a marker of ethnicity and a means of conversion and civic naturalization? Written with clarity and grace, Citizen-Saints will be of enormous interest to students of English literature, religion, and early modern culture. |
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Halaman ix
... readers at the University of Chicago Press, including Alan Thomas and Nicholas Murray, have provided generous yet ... readings of Othello, The Tempest, and Measure for Measure. I would like to thank my colleagues in the Core Course ...
... readers at the University of Chicago Press, including Alan Thomas and Nicholas Murray, have provided generous yet ... readings of Othello, The Tempest, and Measure for Measure. I would like to thank my colleagues in the Core Course ...
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... reading of Shakespeare undertaken here. If the exception orients the foundational metaphors of political theology, the norm forms the baseline for civic discourse, pointing to procedure, process, and precedent and to equity, equality ...
... reading of Shakespeare undertaken here. If the exception orients the foundational metaphors of political theology, the norm forms the baseline for civic discourse, pointing to procedure, process, and precedent and to equity, equality ...
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... readings of these plays draw on the resources of contemporary liberalism (with its dual commitment to minority rights and civic culture) to understand Shakespeare's reckonings of citizenship, while also looking at Shakespeare's plays as ...
... readings of these plays draw on the resources of contemporary liberalism (with its dual commitment to minority rights and civic culture) to understand Shakespeare's reckonings of citizenship, while also looking at Shakespeare's plays as ...
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... forms one horizon of my readings of Shakespeare, I do not try to resolve Shakespeare's relation to the religious and political controversies of his day; rather, I aim to weave some of the key metaphors, 14 introduction.
... forms one horizon of my readings of Shakespeare, I do not try to resolve Shakespeare's relation to the religious and political controversies of his day; rather, I aim to weave some of the key metaphors, 14 introduction.
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... reader of Shakespeare concerned to map a particular conceptual convergence—that between the saint and the citizen, or more broadly, between a theology of exceptionalism and a politics of the norm—as it manifests in Shakespeare's plays ...
... reader of Shakespeare concerned to map a particular conceptual convergence—that between the saint and the citizen, or more broadly, between a theology of exceptionalism and a politics of the norm—as it manifests in Shakespeare's plays ...
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Deformations of Fellowship in Marlowes Jew of Malta | 49 |
Merchants of Venice Circles of Citizenship | 73 |
Othello Circumcised | 103 |
Antigone in Vienna | 125 |
Creature Caliban | 159 |
Samson Dagonistes | 181 |
The Literature of Citizenship A Humanifesto | 205 |
Notes | 217 |
Bibliography | 255 |
Index | 271 |
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