Paul Yachnin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1444680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Yachnin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Yachnin |
| SIGNATURE | YACHNIN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Conversion Machines
Treating HPHD disorder—Shakespeare, law, and public life
The serious play of the Shakespeare Moot Project—a graduate course at McGill University in Montreal that choreographed a cross-over genre involving students and faculty in both Law and Literary Studies—provides a space for creative thought about how to make the PhD more useful, more mobile, and more worldly, while at the same time strengthening the core values of humanities research and teaching (For more about the Shakespeare Moot Court (Citatio…
The Crisis in the Humanities—What Would Shakespeare do
In this essay, I turn to Shakespeare for advice about how to alleviate the crisis in the humanities. University faculty and PhD students develop what I’ve called a dispositional immobility, a disposition to do what they do only in an academic setting. I think humanities faculty and doctoral students can learn from Shakespeare a good deal about how to mobilize themselves and what they do as well as a lot about how to change the institution of the …
Making Scholarship Public
How can collaborative, interdisciplinary research on early modern Europe expand the reach of the humanities beyond the academy? In what ways could such a “public turn” enhance the effectiveness of humanities research and teaching? This essay recounts how a number of large, interdisciplinary projects in which the author has been centrally involved grew from scattered intuitions toward collective clarity; how they gathered people from different dis…
Making Publics in Early Modern Europe
Religion Inside Out: Dutch House Churches and the Making of Publics in the Dutch Republic, Steven Mullaney, Angela Vanhaelen, Joe Ward 2. Emerging Publics of Religious Reform in the 1530s: Affair of the Placards and the Publication of Antoine de Marcourt's Livre des marchans, Torrance Kirby 3. Academies, Circles, Salons and the Emergence of the Pre-Modern Literary Public Sphere in Sixteenth-Century France, Francois Rouget 4. Pietro Aretino, Thoma…
The Oxford Shakespeare
Written in 1595, "Richard II" occupies a significant place in the Shakespeare canon. It marks the transition from the earlier history plays dominated by civil war and stark power to a more nuanced representation of the political conflicts of England's past where character and politics are inextricably intertwined. Deftly combining history with tragedy, its tale of bad government and usurpation had great political immediacy for its first audiences…
Making publics in early modern Europe
Shakespeare and Judgment
Legal theorist Desmond Manderson and Shakespearean Paul Yachnin develop parallel arguments that seek to restore a public dimension of responsibility to literary studies and a private dimension of responsibility to law. Their arguments issue from their work as the creators of the Shakespeare Moot Court at McGill University, a course in which graduate English students team up with senior Law students to argue cases in the “Court of Shakespeare,” wh…
Shakespeare and Character
Shakespeare and Character brings together leading scholars in theory, literary criticism, and performance studies in order to redress a serious gap in Shakespeare studies and to put character back at
Not Drowning, Waiving
Magical Properties
Magical Properties: Vision, Possession, and Wonder in Othello Paul Yachnin (bio) A specter is haunting new historicism—the specter of the aesthetic: the attributes of beauty and sublimity, the realm of wonderful objects and feelings of awe. From Louis Montrose’s evocation of the uncanny connections between Simon Forman’s dream of Queen Elizabeth and William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Stephen Greenblatt’s book, Marvelous Possession…
Shakespeare, Politics and the State
showmen) and the customary auspices provided by local communities (as also perhaps in the case of the players at Herrick's Wake), is one of the many potentially fruitful areas in medieval theatre studies whose exploration is decisively facilitated by these two significant publications
Magical Properties
Magical Properties: Vision, Possession, and Wonder in Othello Paul Yachnin (bio) A specter is haunting new historicism—the specter of the aesthetic: the attributes of beauty and sublimity, the realm of wonderful objects and feelings of awe. From Louis Montrose’s evocation of the uncanny connections between Simon Forman’s dream of Queen Elizabeth and William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Stephen Greenblatt’s book, Marvelous Possession…
Shakespeare, Politics and the State
showmen) and the customary auspices provided by local communities (as also perhaps in the case of the players at Herrick's Wake), is one of the many potentially fruitful areas in medieval theatre studies whose exploration is decisively facilitated by these two significant publications
Magical Properties
Magical Properties: Vision, Possession, and Wonder in Othello Paul Yachnin (bio) A specter is haunting new historicism—the specter of the aesthetic: the attributes of beauty and sublimity, the realm of wonderful objects and feelings of awe. From Louis Montrose’s evocation of the uncanny connections between Simon Forman’s dream of Queen Elizabeth and William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Stephen Greenblatt’s book, Marvelous Possession…
Not Drowning, Waiving
Shakespeare and Character
Shakespeare and Character brings together leading scholars in theory, literary criticism, and performance studies in order to redress a serious gap in Shakespeare studies and to put character back at
Making publics in early modern Europe
Shakespeare and Judgment
Legal theorist Desmond Manderson and Shakespearean Paul Yachnin develop parallel arguments that seek to restore a public dimension of responsibility to literary studies and a private dimension of responsibility to law. Their arguments issue from their work as the creators of the Shakespeare Moot Court at McGill University, a course in which graduate English students team up with senior Law students to argue cases in the “Court of Shakespeare,” wh…
Making Publics in Early Modern Europe
Religion Inside Out: Dutch House Churches and the Making of Publics in the Dutch Republic, Steven Mullaney, Angela Vanhaelen, Joe Ward 2. Emerging Publics of Religious Reform in the 1530s: Affair of the Placards and the Publication of Antoine de Marcourt's Livre des marchans, Torrance Kirby 3. Academies, Circles, Salons and the Emergence of the Pre-Modern Literary Public Sphere in Sixteenth-Century France, Francois Rouget 4. Pietro Aretino, Thoma…
The Oxford Shakespeare
Written in 1595, "Richard II" occupies a significant place in the Shakespeare canon. It marks the transition from the earlier history plays dominated by civil war and stark power to a more nuanced representation of the political conflicts of England's past where character and politics are inextricably intertwined. Deftly combining history with tragedy, its tale of bad government and usurpation had great political immediacy for its first audiences…
Making Scholarship Public
How can collaborative, interdisciplinary research on early modern Europe expand the reach of the humanities beyond the academy? In what ways could such a “public turn” enhance the effectiveness of humanities research and teaching? This essay recounts how a number of large, interdisciplinary projects in which the author has been centrally involved grew from scattered intuitions toward collective clarity; how they gathered people from different dis…
Treating HPHD disorder—Shakespeare, law, and public life
The serious play of the Shakespeare Moot Project—a graduate course at McGill University in Montreal that choreographed a cross-over genre involving students and faculty in both Law and Literary Studies—provides a space for creative thought about how to make the PhD more useful, more mobile, and more worldly, while at the same time strengthening the core values of humanities research and teaching (For more about the Shakespeare Moot Court (Citatio…
The Crisis in the Humanities—What Would Shakespeare do
In this essay, I turn to Shakespeare for advice about how to alleviate the crisis in the humanities. University faculty and PhD students develop what I’ve called a dispositional immobility, a disposition to do what they do only in an academic setting. I think humanities faculty and doctoral students can learn from Shakespeare a good deal about how to mobilize themselves and what they do as well as a lot about how to change the institution of the …
Conversion Machines
Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)