Product Description: This volume of the "Shakespeare Yearbook" brings together articles centered around the intersections between Lacanian Theory and the literary production of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The volume will be of interest to psychoanalysts, scholars of Shakespeare and the English Renaissance, rhetoricians and literary theorists, and anyone interested in exploring the resonances of the teaching of Jacques Lacan in our time...read more

Product Description: Despite the outpour of interpretations, from critics of all schools, on Shakespeare's dramatic works and other poetic works, "A Lover's Complaint" has been almost totally ignored by criticism. This collection of essays is designed to bring to the poem the attention it deserves for its beauty, its aesthetic, psychological and conceptual complexity, and its representation of its cultural moment...read more

Product Description: The Risks of Simile in Renaissance Rhetoric is a groundbreaking study of the fascination with simile in Renaissance rhetoric and poetics. Moving Renaissance studies beyond the limitations of new historicism, Shirley Sharon-Zisser demonstrates that Renaissance rhetoricians anticipated the interest of psychoanalysis in the links between desire and language...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)