The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets by Garrison, John S.
The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets by Garrison, John S.

The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets

The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets uses Shakespeare's poetry as a case study for the mutually...
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Author: John S. Garrison
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets by Garrison, John S.

The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets

$348.37
The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets by Garrison, John S.

The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets

$348.37
Author: John S. Garrison
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets uses Shakespeare's poetry as a case study for the mutually formative relationship between desire and recollection. Through a series of close readings that are both historically situated and informed by recent theory, it traces how the speaker of the poems strives for a more agential relationship to his own memory by treating recollection as a form of narrative.

Drawing together insights from cognitive science, the early modern memory arts, and psychoanalysis, John S. Garrison connects the Sonnets to the larger Renaissance project of conceiving memory as a faculty to be developed and managed through self-discipline and rhetoric. In doing so, he reveals how early modern thought presaged many theories that have emerged in contemporary neuroscientific and psychoanalytic understandings of the self and its longing for pleasure. The Sonnets emerge as a collection that contemplates the affective dimensions and conceptual overlaps that bind anticipation to retrospection in the fraught pursuit of erotic pleasure.

Indispensable for students and scholars working on Shakespeare's poetry, this study appeals also to a broader audience of readers interested in affect, memory, and sexuality studies. Shakespeare's most beloved sonnets are discussed, as well as less familiar ones, alongside contemporary adaptations of the poems. Garrison brings the Sonnets further into the present by comparing them with treatments of pleasure and memory by modern authors such as C.P. Cavafy, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and Michael Ondaatje.

Author: John S. Garrison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 01/13/2024
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780198857716


Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2024

About the Author
John S. Garrison, Professor of English, Grinnell College

John S. Garrison is Professor of English at Grinnell College, where he teaches courses on early modern literature and culture. His previous books include Glass (2015) and Shakespeare and the Afterlife (OUP, 2019). He has received fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Renaissance Society of America. In 2021, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow.

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