The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 19.0210 Thursday, 10 April 2008
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Date: Monday, 07 Apr 2008 14:49:19 -0400
Subject: Shakespeare
Below you will find a brief description of a new title published by
Princeton University Press.
Shakespeare
Johann Gottfried Herder
Translated, edited, and with an introduction by Gregory Moore
Cloth | 2008 | $12.95 / ?7.95
128 pp. | 4 x 6
Without Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), we simply would not
understand Shakespeare in the way we do. In fact, much literature and
art besides Shakespeare would neither look the same nor be the same
without the influence of Herder's "Shakespeare" (1773). One of the most
important and original works in the history of literary criticism, this
passionate essay pioneered a new, historicist approach to cultural
artifacts by arguing that they should be judged not by their conformity
to a set of conventions imported from another time and place, but by the
effectiveness of their response to their own historical and cultural
context. Rejecting the authority of a dominant and stifling French
neoclassicism that judged eighteenth-century plays by the criteria of
Aristotle, Herder's "Shakespeare" signaled a break with the
Enlightenment, the approach of Romanticism, and the arrival of a
distinctly modern form of aesthetic appreciation.
With a vivid new translation and a fascinating introduction by Gregory
Moore, this edition of Herder's classic will speak to today's readers
with undiminished power and persuasiveness.
Gregory Moore is lecturer in German at the University of St. Andrews. He
is the editor and translator of Herder's Selected Writings on Aesthetics
(Princeton) and the author of Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor.
"Herder's essay on Shakespeare is not an antique. It has the same
vitalizing power as the grand sequence of English critical
Shakespeareans: Dr. Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Bradley, Empson,
Kermode, and Nuttall. Gregory Moore's translation and introduction alike
are admirably eloquent and illuminating."-Harold Bloom
Read chapter 1 online, click here:
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8633.html
Julie Haenisch
Senior Text Promotion Manager
Princeton University Press
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Princeton, NJ, 08540-5237
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