Frank Whigham
Biographic Data
| ID | 256848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Whigham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank |
| FAMILY NAME | Whigham |
| SIGNATURE | WHIGHAM F |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shakespeare and Social Dialogue
s excellent new book presents an unusually apt and original interweaving of cultural studies and close reading. (^Caveat emptor.I served as a referee for this project in 1991, when it was only a plan.)The author's starting point, familiar from Bakhtin and Bourdieu, is that language is inherently interactionist and dialogic: focus properly falls on exchanges more than speeches, and on the social what flows between interlocutorsmore than the psycho…
Seizures of the Will in Early Modern English Drama
In Seizures of the Will in Early Modern English Drama Frank Whigham combines an analysis of English Renaissance plays with an enriched sense of their social surroundings. He traces the violent gestures of social self-construction that animate many such plays, and the ways in which drama interacts with the conflict-ridden discourses of social, rank, gender, kinship, and service relationships. In Whigham's view, The Spanish Tragedy initiates the 'm…
Reading Social Conflict in the Alimentary Tract
During the early seventeenth century Renaissance drama increasingly presented the body politic in privacy. Elizabethan political and social sins once portrayed with armies and rebels and maps were often recast in terms of sexual deviation and bodily excess. Henry IV gave way to The Revenger's Tragedy, the battlefield to the court, privy councils to privy parts. What was the freight of this turn to the private body? What ideological labor did it c…
Ambition and Privilege
Interpretation at Court
rT _HE RENAISSANCE was a period of programmatic change in Western social codes. Widespread social mobility began to call into question the received ascriptive verities of birth and worth (attributes theoretically inaccessible to personal effort) and to make possible new codes and stratifications based on merit and behavior. This new philosophy eventually called all in doubt, but its fundamental assumption, that the social world is a human constru…
Ambition and Privilege
Interpretation at Court
rT _HE RENAISSANCE was a period of programmatic change in Western social codes. Widespread social mobility began to call into question the received ascriptive verities of birth and worth (attributes theoretically inaccessible to personal effort) and to make possible new codes and stratifications based on merit and behavior. This new philosophy eventually called all in doubt, but its fundamental assumption, that the social world is a human constru…
Interpretation at Court
rT _HE RENAISSANCE was a period of programmatic change in Western social codes. Widespread social mobility began to call into question the received ascriptive verities of birth and worth (attributes theoretically inaccessible to personal effort) and to make possible new codes and stratifications based on merit and behavior. This new philosophy eventually called all in doubt, but its fundamental assumption, that the social world is a human constru…
Ambition and Privilege
Reading Social Conflict in the Alimentary Tract
During the early seventeenth century Renaissance drama increasingly presented the body politic in privacy. Elizabethan political and social sins once portrayed with armies and rebels and maps were often recast in terms of sexual deviation and bodily excess. Henry IV gave way to The Revenger's Tragedy, the battlefield to the court, privy councils to privy parts. What was the freight of this turn to the private body? What ideological labor did it c…
Seizures of the Will in Early Modern English Drama
In Seizures of the Will in Early Modern English Drama Frank Whigham combines an analysis of English Renaissance plays with an enriched sense of their social surroundings. He traces the violent gestures of social self-construction that animate many such plays, and the ways in which drama interacts with the conflict-ridden discourses of social, rank, gender, kinship, and service relationships. In Whigham's view, The Spanish Tragedy initiates the 'm…
Shakespeare and Social Dialogue
s excellent new book presents an unusually apt and original interweaving of cultural studies and close reading. (^Caveat emptor.I served as a referee for this project in 1991, when it was only a plan.)The author's starting point, familiar from Bakhtin and Bourdieu, is that language is inherently interactionist and dialogic: focus properly falls on exchanges more than speeches, and on the social what flows between interlocutorsmore than the psycho…
Art (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Courtesy (2 works) · Drama (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (2 works)