Voice and ethics in Shakespeare's late plays /
Breaking new ground in Shakespearean sound studies, Kent Lehnhof draws scholarly attention to the rich ethical significance of the voice and vocality. Less concerned with semantics, stylistics and rhetoric than with the sensuous, sonorous and somatic dimensions of human speech, Lehnhof performs clos...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2025].
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| Summary: | Breaking new ground in Shakespearean sound studies, Kent Lehnhof draws scholarly attention to the rich ethical significance of the voice and vocality. Less concerned with semantics, stylistics and rhetoric than with the sensuous, sonorous and somatic dimensions of human speech, Lehnhof performs close readings of five plays, Coriolanus, King Lear, Pericles, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest, to demonstrate how Shakespeare's later works present the act of speaking and the sound of the voice as capable of constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing interpersonal relationships and obligations. By thinking widely and innovatively about the voice and vocality, Lehnhof models a fresh form of philosophically-minded criticism that resists logocentrism and elevates the voices of marginalized groups and individuals including women, members of societal "underclasses," racialized persons and non-humans. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 213 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781009613873 1009613871 9781009613866 1009613863 |