Shakespeare and the Denial of Territory: Banishment, Abuse of Power and Strategi

Description: Shakespeare and the Denial of Territory by Pascale Drouet This book examines three Shakespeare plays in which abusive banishment participates in a dialectics of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation (King Richard II, King Lear and Coriolanus). It draws on analyses by French philosophers (notably Deleuze and Foucault), so as to understand strategies of resistance when one is denied ones territory. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book analyses three Shakespearean plays that particularly deal with abusive forms of banishment: King Richard II, Coriolanus, and King Lear. In these plays, the abuses of power are triggered by fearless speeches that question the legitimacy of power and are misinterpreted as breaches of allegiance; in these plays, both the bold speech of the fearless speaker and the performative sentence of the banisher trigger the relentless dynamics of what Deleuze and Guattari termed deterritorialisation. This book approaches the central question of the abusive denial of territory from various angles: linguistic, legal and ethical, physical and psychological. Various strategies of resistance are explored: illegal return, which takes the form of a frontal counterattack employing a war machine; ruse and the experience of internal(ised) exile; and mental escape, which nonetheless may lead to madness, exhaustion or heartbreak. Flap This book analyses three Shakespearean plays that particularly deal with abusive forms of banishment: King Richard II, Coriolanus and King Lear. These plays present with particular clarity the mechanism of the banishment proclamation and its consequences, that is, the dynamic of exclusion and its repercussions. Those repercussions may entail breaking the ban to come back illegally and seek revenge, devising strategies of deviation, such as disguise and change of identity, or resorting to mental subterfuges as a means of refuge; they may also lead to entropy - exhaustion, letting go or heartbreak. Each in its own way, they invite us to reflect upon the complex articulation between banishment and abuse of power, upon the strategies of resistance and displacement employed to shun or endure the painful experience of deterritorialisation; they put into play the dialectics of allegiance and disobedience, of fearlessly speaking and silencing, of endurance and exhaustion; they question both the legitimacy of power and the limits of human resistance. This study mainly, but not exclusively, draws on French scholars in Shakespearean studies and also on contemporary French historians, theorists, anthropologists, psychoanalysts, essayists and philosophers, who can help us read Shakespeares plays in our time. It thus takes into account some of the works of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Gaston Bachelard, Marcel Detienne and Jean-Pierre Vernant, Boris Cyrulnik and Emmanuel Housset. The hope is that their respective intellectual approaches will shed specific kinds of light on Shakespeares plays and initiate a fruitful dialogue with Anglophone criticism. Author Biography Pascale Drouet is Professor in Early Modern British Literature at the University of Poitiers in France. Table of Contents Introduction Part I: The dynamic of deterritorialisation in King Richard II, King Lear and Coriolanus1 Swearing allegiance or questioning power 2 Abuse of power and banishment: from effet de retour to unnaturalness3 The talion effect: deterritorialisation for deterritorialisaion Part II: The dynamic of riposte in King Richard II and Coriolanus4 The politics of illegal return5 The necessity of the war machine6 Alternatives to the war machine Part III: The experience of internal(ised) exile in King Lear7 Dissembling and avoiding banishment8 Assuming otherness, or the spiral of degradation9 Home as a foreign elsewhere Part IV: The dialectic of endurance and exhaustion in King Richard II and King Lear10 Mental spaces and types of interiority11 The limits of endurance and the signs of exhaustion12 Maps of emotions ConclusionBibliography Index Long Description This book analyses three Shakespearean plays that particularly deal with abusive forms of banishment: King Richard II, Coriolanus , and King Lear. In these plays, the abuses of power are triggered by fearless speeches that question the legitimacy of power and are misinterpreted as breaches of allegiance; in these plays, both the bold speech of the fearless speaker and the performative sentence of the banisher trigger the relentless dynamics of what Deleuze and Guattari termed deterritorialisation. This book approaches the central question of the abusive denial of territory from various angles: linguistic, legal and ethical, physical and psychological. Various strategies of resistance are explored: illegal return, which takes the form of a frontal counterattack employing a war machine; ruse and the experience of internal(ised) exile; and mental escape, which nonetheless may lead to madness, exhaustion or heartbreak. Details ISBN1526144042 Short Title Shakespeare and the Denial of Territory Publisher Manchester University Press Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1526144042 ISBN-13 9781526144041 Format Hardcover Subtitle Banishment, Abuse of Power and Strategies of Resistance Imprint Manchester University Press Place of Publication Manchester Country of Publication United Kingdom Author Pascale Drouet Pages 248 Publication Date 2021-11-23 NZ Release Date 2021-11-23 UK Release Date 2021-11-23 DEWEY 822.33 Audience General AU Release Date 2021-12-02 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159688803;

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