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050		4	_aPR2819 _b.D53 2016
100	1		_aDionne, Craig, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aPosthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene _cby Craig Dionne.
264		1	_bProject Muse,
264		3	_bProject MUSE,
300			_a1 online resource (222 pages) : _billustrations
500			_aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aApproaching 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, to that of survival and pondering one's interdependence with a denuded world. Dionne frames the thematic arc of Shakespeare's tragedy about the fall of a king as a tableaux of our post-sustainable condition. For Dionne, Lear's progress on the heath works as a parable of flat ontology.At the center of Dionne's analysis of rhetoric and prodigality in the tragedy is the argument that adages and proverbs, working as embodied forms of speech, offer insight into a nonhuman, fragmentary mode of consciousness. The Renaissance fascination with memory and proverbs provides an opportunity to reflect on the human as an instance of such enmeshed being where the habit of articulating memorized patterns of speech works on a somatic level. Dionne theorizes how mnemonic memory functions as a potentially empowering mode of consciousness inherited by our evolutionary history as a species, revealing how our minds work as imprinted machines to recall past prohibitions and useful affective scripts to aid in our interaction with the environment. The proverb is that linguistic inscription that defines the equivalent of human-animal imprinting, where the past is etched upon collective memory within 'adagential' being that lives on through the generations as autonomic cues for survival.Dionne's reimagining of this tragedy is important in the way it places Shakespeare's central existential questions -- the meaning of familial love, commitments to friends, our place in a secular world -- in a new relation to the main question of surviving within fixed environmental limits. Along the way, Dionne reflects on the larger theoretical implications of recycling the old historicism of early modern culture to speak to an eco-materialism, and why the modernist textual aesthetics of the self-distancing text seems inadequate when considering the uncertainty and trauma that underscores life in a post-sustainable culture. Dionne's final appeal is to "repurpose" our fatalism in the face of ecological disaster.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
600	1	1	_aShakespeare, William, _d1564-1616 _xHistory and criticism.
600	1	1	_aShakespeare, William, _d1564-1616. _tKing Lear.
650		0	_aEcocriticism.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse, _edistributor.
776	1	8	_iPrint version: _z9780692641576
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/76498/
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