Shakespearean Pragmatism: Market of His Time Tapa dura - 1993 - 1st Edición

University of Chicago Press, 1993. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of Chicago Press, November 1993. Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. faintest hints of foxing to outer edge of page block. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

University of Chicago Press, 1993-11-15. Hardcover. Like New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

University of Chicago Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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University of Chicago Press, 1993-11-15. 1. hardcover. Used: Good.

University of Chicago Press, 1993-11-15. Hardcover. Very Good. 6x0x9. A very nice clean & straight copy in like dust-wrapper. 266 pp.

New. Just as Shakespeare's theatre was an economic gamble, subject to the workings of a market, so the plays themselves submit actions, persons, and motives to an audience's judgement. Such a theatrical economy, Lars Engle suggests, provides a model for the way in which truth is determined and assessed in the world at large - a model much like that offered by contemporary pragmatism. To Engle, the problems of worth, price, and value that appear so frequently in Shakespeare's works reveal a playwright dramatizing the negotiable nature of perception and belief - in short, the nature of his audience's purchase on reality. This innovative argument views Shakespeare in the context of contemporary pragmatism and to shows that Shakespeare in many ways anticipated pragmatism as it has been developed in the thought of Richard Rorty, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, and others. With detailed reference to the sonnets and plays, Engle explores Shakespeare's tendency to treat knowledge, truth, and… Leer más

Univ of Chicago Pr, 1993. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 276 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches.

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