Shakespeare en het "New Historicism"

SHAKESPEARE , CULTURE , NEW HISTORICISM UDC 821 . 111 . 09 : 821 . 111 - 2 Shakespeare

In the 1980s, New Historicism was a strikingly innovative way of examining literary history, as well as practicing literary theory. Greatly influenced by the work of Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault, New Historicists in America and their British counterparts, Cultural Materialists, set to rewrite the history of Western literature in such a way as to challenge what they considered the socio-p...

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Shakespeare—A New Discovery

It is a rare event when a previously unknown manuscript by a classical author is discovered. The provenance of the fragment here reproduced is unknown, its authenticity is beyond question if for no other reason than that the folio is signed on verso by Shakespeare himself, using three different inks, three styles of script and eight spellings. Shakespeare's knowledge of medicine has been extens...

De zwaargewonden eerst? Het Nederlandsche Roode Kruis en het vraagstuk van oorlog in vrede 1867–1945

emotional and intellectual rationales for the movement. At the same time he explores in meticulous detail the complicated practical politics involved. The heart of the story lies in the irony of the movement's survival, the success of the philanthropic effort to "civilize war" being met only through accommodation to, and then generous assistance of, the militaristic interests of individual nati...

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