Owning William Shakespeare : The King's Men and Their Intellectual Property / / James J. Marino

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464104903321
• Autore: Marino James J.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• ISBN: 1-283-89763-6; 0-8122-0577-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (211 p.)
• Collana: Material Texts
• Disciplina: 792.95094209031
• Soggetti: Intellectual property - England - History - 16th century; Intellectual property - England - History - 17th century; Transmission of texts - England - History - 16th century; Transmission of texts - England - History - 17th century; Repertory theater - England - London - History - 16th century; Repertory theater - England - London - History - 17th century; Theatrical companies - England - London - History - 16th century; Theatrical companies - England - London - History - 17th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-193) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Secondhand Repertory: The Fall and Rise of Master W. Shakespeare -- Chapter 2. Sixty Years of Shrews -- Chapter 3. Hamlet, Part by Part -- Chapter 4. William Shakespeare's Sir John Oldcastle and the Globe's William Shakespeare -- Chapter 5. Restorations and Glorious Revolutions -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Copyright is by no means the only device for asserting ownership of a work. Some writers, including playwrights in the early modern period, did not even view print copyright as the most important of their authorial rights. A rich vein of recent scholarship has examined the interaction between royal monopolies, which have been identified with later notions of intrinsic authorial ownership, and the internal copy ; registration practices of the English book trades. Yet this dialogue was but one part of a still more complicated conversation in early modern England, James J. Marino argues; other customs and other sets of professional demands were at least as important, most strikingly in the exercise of the performance rights of plays. In Owning William Shakespeare James Marino explores the actors' system of intellectual property as something fundamentally different from the property regimes exercised by the London printers or the royal monopolists. Focusing on Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, and other works, he demonstrates how Shakespeare's acting company asserted ownership of its plays through intense rewriting combined with progressively insistent attribution to Shakespeare. The familiar versions of these plays were created through ongoing revision in the theater, a process that did not necessarily begin with Shakespeare's original manuscript or end when he died. An ascription by the company of any play to "Shakespeare" did not imply that it was following a fixed, authorial text; rather, Marino writes, it indicates an attempt to maintain exclusive control over a set of open-ended, theatrically revised scripts. Combining theater history, textual studies, and literary theory, Owning William Shakespeare rethinks both the way Shakespeare's plays were created and the way they came to be known as his. It overturns a century of scholarship aimed at re-creating the playwright's lost manuscripts, focusing instead on the way the plays continued to live and grow onstage.

The not-two : logic and God in Lacan / / Chiesa, Lorenzo

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910466121203321
• Autore: Chiesa Lorenzo
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , 2016
• ISBN: 0-262-33503-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Collana: Short circuits
• Disciplina: 150.19/5092
• Soggetti: Logic; God; Love; Psychoanalysis and philosophy; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Series Foreword; Preface: Toward Para-ontology; 1 Woman and the Number of God; 2 Logic and Biology: Against Bio-logy; 3 Logic, Science, Writing; 4 The Logic of Sexuation; Conclusion: 0, 1, Undecidability, and the Virgin; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In The Not-Two, Lorenzo Chiesa examines the treatment of logic and God in Lacan's later work. Chiesa draws for the most part from Lacan's Seminars of the early 1970's, as they revolve around the axiom "There is no sexual relationship." Chiesa provides both a close reading of Lacan's effort to formalize sexual difference as incompleteness and an assessment of its broader implications for philosophical realism and materialism. Chiesa argues that "There is no sexual relationship" is for Lacan empirically and historically circumscribed by psychoanalysis, yet self-evident in our everyday lives. Lacan believed that we have sex because we love, and that love is a desire to be One in face of the absence of the sexual relationship. Love presupposes a real "not-two." The not-two condenses the idea that our love and sex lives are dictated by the impossibility of fusing man's contradictory being with the heteros of woman as a fundamentally uncountable Other. Sexual liaisons are sustained by a transcendental logic, the so-called phallic function that attempts to overcome this impossibility. Chiesa also ; focuses on Lacan's critical dialogue with modern science and formal logic, as well as his dismantling of sexuality as considered by mainstream biological discourse. Developing a new logic of sexuation based on incompleteness requires the relinquishing of any alleged logos of life and any teleological evolution. Lacan, the truth of incompleteness as approached psychoanalytically through sexuality would allow us to go further in debunking traditional onto-theology and replace it with a "para-ontology" yet to be developed. Given the truth of incompleteness, Chiesa asks, can we think such a truth in itself without turning incompleteness into another truth about truth, that is, into yet another figure of God as absolute being?

Facing the Khmer Rouge [[electronic resource] ] : a Cambodian journey / / Ronnie Yimsut ; foreword by David Chandler ; conclusion by Daniel Savin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790594703321
• Autore: Yimsut Ronnie <1961->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2011
• ISBN: 1-283-86486-X; 0-8135-5230-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Collana: Genocide, political violence, human rights series
• Altri autori (Persone): ChandlerDavid P; SavinDavid
• Disciplina: 959.604/2
• Soggetti: Cambodian Americans; Refugees - United States; Genocide - Cambodia - History - 20th century; Siĕmréab (Cambodia) Biography; Cambodia History 1975-1979 Biography; Cambodia Politics and government 1975-1979
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE: BETWEEN WORLDS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: A BOOK IS BORN -- FAMILY TREE OF ; RANACHITH (“RONNIE”) YIMSUT -- CHRONOLOGY -- 1. Childhood Idyll: Siem Reap -- 2. Bamboo in the Wind: Regime Change in Siem Reap -- 3. An Uncivil War: Heavy Shelling in Siem Reap -- 4. Shocks and Surprises: Angkor Wat and Domdek -- 5. A Time of Plenty: Back Home in Siem Reap -- 6. An Era Is Ended: Siem Reap under Siege -- 7. An Empty Village: Krobey Riel and Siem Reap -- 8. A Great Leap Backward: Keo Poeur, Kok Poh, and Kork Putrea -- 9. The Death of Dogs Tapang -- 10. Miracle at the Temple: Wat Yieng -- 11. Dead Weight: Ta Source Hill and the Massacre Site -- 12. Kill or Be Killed: Krobey Riel, Dorn Swar, and Prey Roniem -- 13. Barefoot Escape: Srae Noy, Resin Mountain, and the Deep Northern Jungle -- 14. Alien Worlds: Din Daeng, Sisaketh, Buriram, and Aranya Prathet -- 15. Urban Jungle: Washington, D.C., Seattle, and Oregon State -- 16. Back to the Past: Oregon State, Siem Reap, and Phnom Penh -- 17. Back in Time: Oregon State and Phnom Penh -- 18. Turning Point: Elections in Phnom Penh -- 19. Facing the Khmer Rouge: Siem Reap, Ta Source Hill, the Massacre Site, and Pailin -- 20. Lights: Siem Reap and Phnom Penh -- Epilogue -- Afterword: The Healing and Reconciling Process -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: As a child growing up in Cambodia, Ronnie Yimsut played among the ruins of the Angkor Wat temples, surrounded by a close-knit community. As the Khmer Rouge gained power and began its genocidal reign of terror, his life became a nightmare. In this stunning memoir, Yimsut describes how, in the wake of death and destruction, he decides to live. Escaping the turmoil of Cambodia, he makes a perilous journey through the jungle into Thailand, only to be sent to a notorious Thai prison. Fortunately, he is able to reach a refugee camp and ultimately migrate to the United States, where he attended the University of Oregon and became an influential leader in the community of Cambodian immigrants. Facing the Khmer Rouge shows Ronnie Yimsut’s personal quest to rehabilitate himself, make a new life in America, and then return to Cambodia to help rebuild the land of his birth.