image

Bottom: On Shakespeare (The Wesleyan Centennial Edition of the Complete Critical Writings of Louis Zukofsky)

  • Authors: Louis Zukofsky - Celia Thaew Zukofsky
  • ISBN 10: 0819565482
  • ISBN 13: 9780819565488
  • Edition: Complete Ed
  • Release: August 21, 2002
  • Format: Paperback (712 pages)
  • List Price: $39.95
  • More Details

    List Price: $39.95

    Tags: Literature & Fiction, Drama, General,

    Book Description:
    Written between 1947 and 1960 and first published in 1963, the prose work in the first of these two volumes reflects Louis Zukofsky's ongoing obsession with Shakespeare--whose plays he had first seen performed in Yiddish--and is central to understanding Zukofsky's work. Tracing the themes of knowledge, love and physical vision ("the eyes have it") through both Shakespeare's plays and the poetry, Bottom: On Shakespeare is more than a compendious act of homage by one poet to another. In effect, it lays out Zukofsky's poetics and theory of knowledge on a grand scale, tracing his themes through the whole of Western culture, from the Classical Greeks through William Carlos Williams. The second volume of Bottom: On Shakespeare consists of Celia Thaew Zukofsky's spare operatic setting of Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre, a play in which Zukofsky saw Shakespeare rewriting the classic plots and tropes of the Odyssey. The Wesleyan edition features a new foreword by Bob Perelman.

Getting Prices, Please Wait
Loading…
  • New, Used, Rental, eBooks and International
  • Find the Lowest Prices Online
  • Over 8 Million Textbooks
  • Free Comparison Tool
  • Save up to 95%
  • Saving You Money Since 1999

Best Prices

    Loading
Seller Condition Price Shipping Total (inc. est. tax)

Content Copyright © 1999-2013 Terms and Conditions of Use, Security and Privacy Policy | Resources: 1 2 3 | Site Map

campusbooks.com  BBB Business Review CopyScape