Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political TheologyUniversity of Chicago Press, 11.02.2014 - 296 Seiten 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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Shakespeare and Political Theology Julia Reinhard Lupton. ✺ citizen-saints ✺ citizen-saints Shakespeare and Political Theology julia reinhard lupton The.
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Shakespeare and Political Theology Julia Reinhard Lupton. For my daughters and my son, Hannah, Isabel, Lucy, and Eliot May you blaze your own paths, together and separately, between Athens andJerusalem. contents ✺ acknowledgments ix a ...
Shakespeare and Political Theology Julia Reinhard Lupton. For my daughters and my son, Hannah, Isabel, Lucy, and Eliot May you blaze your own paths, together and separately, between Athens andJerusalem. contents ✺ acknowledgments ix a ...
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Shakespeare and Political Theology Julia Reinhard Lupton. about religious tolerance within this liberal line is to probe not only the formal terms of citizenship (who's in, who's out, and why), but also the exegetical genealogy of key ...
Shakespeare and Political Theology Julia Reinhard Lupton. about religious tolerance within this liberal line is to probe not only the formal terms of citizenship (who's in, who's out, and why), but also the exegetical genealogy of key ...
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Shakespeare and Political Theology Julia Reinhard Lupton. mulations.26 Christianity de>nes the principal religious context for Shakespearean drama and hence is a constant reference point in these analyses, above all in the >gure of St ...
Shakespeare and Political Theology Julia Reinhard Lupton. mulations.26 Christianity de>nes the principal religious context for Shakespearean drama and hence is a constant reference point in these analyses, above all in the >gure of St ...
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Shakespeare and Political Theology Julia Reinhard Lupton. forms of relation anointed by marriage. Beginning with Antigone, the order of celibacy represented by the saint exists at cross-purposes with this fundamental metaphor and ...
Shakespeare and Political Theology Julia Reinhard Lupton. forms of relation anointed by marriage. Beginning with Antigone, the order of celibacy represented by the saint exists at cross-purposes with this fundamental metaphor and ...
Inhalt
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19 | |
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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