The Shakespeare multiverse : fandom as literary praxis / Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes.
Fazel, Valerie M., author.; Geddes, Louise, author.
2022
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Title The Shakespeare multiverse : fandom as literary praxis / Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes.
Author Fazel, Valerie M., author.
ISBN 9780429289507 (electronic bk.)
0429289502 (electronic bk.)
9781000463521 (electronic bk. : PDF)
1000463524 (electronic bk. : PDF)
9781032114453
9780367257347
9781000463576 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
1000463575 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
Published New York, NY : Routledge, [2022]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (248 pages)
Item Number 9780429289507
Call Number PR2965
Dewey Decimal Classification 822.33
Summary The Shakespeare Multiverse: Fandom as Literary Praxis argues that fandom offers new models for a twenty-first century reading practice that embraces affective pleasure and subjective self-positioning as a means of understanding a text. Part critical study, part source book, The Shakespeare Multiverse suggests that fannish contributions to the ongoing expansion of the object that we call Shakespeare is best imagined as a multiverse, encompassing different worlds that consolidate the various perspectives that different fans bring to Shakespeare. Our concept of the multiverse redefines ⁰́b8Shakespeare⁰́b9 not as a singular body of work, but as space where a process of inquiry and cultural memory ⁰́b3 memories in the making, and those already made ⁰́b3 is influenced and shaped by the technologies available to the reader. Characteristic of fandom is an intertextual reading strategy that we term cyborg reading, an approach that accommodates the varied elements of identity, politics, culture, sexuality, and race that shape the ways that Shakespeare is explored and appropriated throughout fannish reading communities. The Shakespeare Multiverse intersects literary theory, fan studies, and popular culture as it traverses Shakespeare fandom from the 1623 Folio to the age of the Internet, exploring the different textures of fan affect, from those who firmly uphold fidelity to the text to those who sit on the very edge of the fandom, threatening to cross over into Shakespearean anti-fandom. By recognizing the literary value of fandom, The Shakespeare Multiverse offers a new approach to literary criticism that challenges the limits of hegemonic authority and recognizes the value of a joyfully speculative critical praxis.
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Historical Data Valerie M. Fazel currently teaches in the Department of English at Arizona State University, where she earned her Ph.D. She is co-editor of The Shakespeare User: Creative and Critical Appropriations in a Networked Culture (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) and Variable Objects: Speculative Shakespeare Appropriation (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Her essay work on Shakespeare and popular appropriation appears in several edited collections and Borrowers and Lenders: A Journal of Shakespeare Appropriation, The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Sundial, and Shakespeare. Louise Geddes is an Associate Professor of English at Adelphi University. She received her Ph.D in English from the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Appropriating Shakespeare: A Cultural History of Pyramus and Thisbe (FDUP, 2017) and is the co-editor of The Shakespeare User: Creative and Critical Appropriations in a Networked Culture (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) and Variable Objects: Speculative Shakespeare Appropriation (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Her work has been published in Shakespeare Bulletin, Shakespeare Survey, Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Drama and Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. She is one of the General Editors of Borrowers and Lenders: A Journal of Shakespeare Appropriation.
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Series Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 1
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A Note on Form and MethodologyMultiverse, part one: Ode to Ophelia Introduction - The Pleasures of Cyborg ReadingMultiverse, part two: The Patient Must Minister To Himself, or, William and the DoctorChapter One - The Archontic Multiverse: A Theory of Shakespeare⁰́b9s Big BangMultiverse, part three: Prince⁰́b9s ShadowChapter Two - "The Thing Itself": Paratexts and New Shakespeare GenealogiesMultiverse part four: Four Songs for Lady MacbethChapter Three - Taking out the (Shakespeare) Trash: Illegitimate Knowledge and Shakespeare⁰́b9s LosersMultiverse part five: Hamlet⁰́b9s BuzzChapter Four - Your Fave is Problematic: AnteFandom, Anti Fandom, and the Problem of WillMultiverse part six: The Red Right HandConclusion - Shakespeare and the Cyborg Self

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