Could Shakspere have gained his Unversality in Stratford?
Harold Bloom's "Shakespeare the Invention of the Human"
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Stefan Herbrechter "Posthumanist Shakespeares"
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Craig Dionne
"Posthuman Lear" |
Prof. Kiernan Ryan Professor of English Language and Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK and Emeritus Fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, wrote the book „“Shakespeares Universality“, trying – (as a book review tells) - to reclaim
the idea of Shakespeare's timeless universality
from reactionary and radical critics of posthumanists such as Stefan Herbrechter, Craig Dionne a.o
The idea that Shakespeare was "The Inventor of the Human" (Harold Bloom), has lately been discredited by „The posthumanists“ claiming Shakespeare was involved in and complicit in the
The idea that Shakespeare was "The Inventor of the Human" (Harold Bloom), has lately been discredited by „The posthumanists“ claiming Shakespeare was involved in and complicit in the
invention ot the "Inhuman".
Ryan is looking for the relationships between the "Human" and the "Inhuman" in Shakespeare's work. He explains the profoundly anachronistic nature of Shakespeare's art as a criticism of the "Actual" from the perspective of the "Possible".-
Isn’t Shakespeare’s Universalism an expression of an unprecedented brain ability of his dialogic dialectic capabilities and wisdom, the highest stage of cognition, art and philosophy?
...isn't Ryans "Universalism" of Shakespeare a tautologic paper tiger ?
Did Shakspere gain his Universality in Stratford?
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