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Ecology without the Present
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Killing Shakespeare's Children: The Cases of Richard III and King John
(2007)This essay explores a series of affective, sexual and temporal disturbances that Shakespeare's child characters create on the early modern stage and that lead these characters often to their deaths. It does so by turning ... -
Neoliberalism and Allegory
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The Oedipal Logic of Ecological Awareness
(2012)The Anthropocene is the radical intersection of human history and geological time. Humans have belatedly realised that they have become a geophysical force on a planetary scale. This creeping realisation has an Oedipal ... -
The Political Economy of the English Rogue
(2014)Rogue narratives represent figures who are, on the one hand, economically and political dispossessed, and on the other, free from constrains of religious morality, social mores and the law. Social marginality allows these ... -
Shakespeareﾒs Children
(2011)Shakespeare had a thing for children. Ann Blake counts 30, Mark Heberle 39, Mark Lawhorn 45, and Carol Chillington Rutter counts well over 50 child parts. What it means that Shakespeare included more child figures in his ... -
The State Of England's Camp: Courtesans, curses, and the violence of style in The Unfortunate Traveller
(2007)Thomas Nashe's mystifying The Unfortunate Traveller offers few clues to explain its fundamental purpose, its grotesque depictions of violence, its outrageous rhetoric, or its relationship to forms of linguistic, literary, ...
