Sharon B. Meltzer, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Richard J. Daley College
Genre, Culture, and the Moment of The Merchant
Professor of English
Richard J. Daley College
Genre, Culture, and the Moment of The Merchant
VOLUME TEN (2017): ARTEFACTS
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- E-CONFERENCE (2008)
- EDITORIAL STATEMENT
- EVENT A: John Milton E-Variorum
- Stella Achilleos: "Anacreontic Sociability"
- Brian Bates: "Parodic Sonnets"
- Jordan Cofer: "Contrasting Views of Women"
- Siobhan Collins: "Gold Coins & the Phoenix"
- James Doelman: "The Parodic Epitaph"
- Daniel Fusch: "The Unmiraculous Miracle"
- Katherine Heavey: "Translating Medea"
- Hannah Lavery: "Exchange & Reciprocation"
- EVENT B: Renaissance / Early Modern Keywords
- Mary Lindroth: "Liquid Societies"
- Jessica Malay: "Buildings with Words"
- Sharon Meltzer: "Genre, Culture & the Moment"
- Tracey Miller-Tomlinson: "Dramatic Hybridities"
- Robert Viking O’Brien: "Travel & the Sonnet"
- Sarah Scheiner-Bobis: "Aesthetics of Control"
- Alison Searle: "Emergence & Interaction"
- Emily Bowles Smith: "Corporeal Intelligibility"
- Brian Yost: "Visual and Ideological Revolt"
- EVENT C: An Collins E-Variorum
- CFP 2008: Genres and Cultures
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4 comments:
Very absorbing and cogent analysis of the complexities of a changing society, its prejudices and family dynamics.
An inciteful, beautifully written reading of 'Merchant' which presented to this reader a new way to relate what Meltzer calls Shylock's 'inwardness' and the "conservative" but evolving mercantile world whose hypocritical mores he futilely strove to navigate.
This is a gracefully written, informed, and, I think, important contextualization of the play's thematic material; it also serves to deepen our appreciation of its "intense drama." I would love to see more by Meltzer on the intriguing relationships between "Merchant" and "Lear."
This is a very interesting and provocative paper. You've talked about how architectural space is transformed into literary space, both of which were used to negotiate for greater prestige in the Elizabethan/Jacobian cultural milieu. How do you think this same logic can be applied to theater as a literary and architectural space constantly struggling for prestige in culture that at times hotly debated its worth? How did, for example, Shakespeare's use of language to address the limitations and advantages of the stage and theater building as an effective and potentially prestigious forum for public discourse?
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