Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene / by Craig Dionne.
Approaching King Lear from an eco-materialist perspective, Posthuman Lear examines how the shift in Shakespeare's tragedy from court to stormy heath activates a different sense of language as tool-being -- from that of participating in the flourish of aristocratic prodigality and circumstance,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2020 ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 222 pages) :; illustrations; PDF, digital file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: this is the thing
- Listening to the past; or; how to speak to the future?
- Lear and the proverbial reflex
- Accessorizing King Lear in the anthropocene
- Coda: Lear's receding world.