Jonathan Gil Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Gil Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan Gil |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | English, George Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Becoming-Indian
This chapter examines how travellers to the New World and to India made sense of their encounters by framing them specifically in reference to the performance techniques and even the architecture of the theatre, in ways both positive and negative. It first considers John Smith’s description of what he calls a ‘Virginia Maske’ in his Generall History of Virginia (1624), a reminder of how the specific textures of early modern theatricality rather t…
Hi Mho Jhi Kudd
Sick Ethnography
The essays in the first section of Indography have suggested how early modern discourses of the "Indian" are not simply forms of proto-Orientalism or techniques of European power. They are also products of mutually transformative contact zones that worked as much to unsettle as to insist on clear-cut distinctions between "European" and "Indian." For every instance of early modern Indology that assumed Europe's primacy and the peripherality of the…
Indography
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Europeans invented 'Indians' and populated the world with them. The global history of the term 'Indian' remains largely unwritten and this volume, taking its
Four Exoskeletons and No Funeral
This essay considers the exoskeleton as a metaphor with which to understand the untimely duration of the past within the present, and in a fashion somewhat different from Jacques Derrida's "hauntology," which persists in figuring the past as a dead revenant that haunts the present. Building on Manuel de Landa's and Fredric Jameson's rather different uses of the metaphor, the essay offers close readings of both Byblos, an archaeological site in Le…
Rematerializing Shakespeare’s Intertheatricality
At the beginning of 2 Henry 4 , Rumour represents himself as a global communications system that spans ‘orient’ and ‘drooping west.’ These compass points demarcate a space conceived both temporally (from sunrise to sunset) and geographically (from Asia to Europe). They also circumscribe the space of the theatrical, providing the imaginative limits within which Rumour can ‘unfold/ The acts commenced on this ball of earth’ — if not the Globe (built…
Sick Economies
The world of The Faerie Queene is no mere microcosm; it is a heterocosm of great complexity."When scholars today attempt to describe the "notions" at play in the minds of Sidney, Spenser, and their peers," Quitslund writes, "the components of popular or middle-class culture, as codified in books such as Shakespeare's England and The Elizabethan World Picture, no longer seem so monolithic as they did in the 1940s and 1950s" (p.121).Indeed.Still, Q…
The Rhetoric of Credit
Ceri Sullivan. The Rhetoric of Credit: Merchants in Early Modern Writing. Cranbury, NJ and Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002. 224 pp. $46.50. ISBN: 0-8386-3926-7. - Volume 56 Issue 3
I am sailing to my port, uh! uh! uh! uh
In his comic drama Volpone (1606), Ben Jonson paints a satirical portrait of universal greed in the lurid colors of physical as well as moral pathology. The confidence trickster Volpone, seemingly infirm and bedridden, accepts an unending stream of gifts from a swarm of legacy hunters who, believing him to be on the brink of death, hope to be named his heir and to inherit his fortune. As he cheerfully profits from those who seek to profit from hi…
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I am sailing to my port, uh! uh! uh! uh
In his comic drama Volpone (1606), Ben Jonson paints a satirical portrait of universal greed in the lurid colors of physical as well as moral pathology. The confidence trickster Volpone, seemingly infirm and bedridden, accepts an unending stream of gifts from a swarm of legacy hunters who, believing him to be on the brink of death, hope to be named his heir and to inherit his fortune. As he cheerfully profits from those who seek to profit from hi…
Sick Economies
The world of The Faerie Queene is no mere microcosm; it is a heterocosm of great complexity."When scholars today attempt to describe the "notions" at play in the minds of Sidney, Spenser, and their peers," Quitslund writes, "the components of popular or middle-class culture, as codified in books such as Shakespeare's England and The Elizabethan World Picture, no longer seem so monolithic as they did in the 1940s and 1950s" (p.121).Indeed.Still, Q…
The Rhetoric of Credit
Ceri Sullivan. The Rhetoric of Credit: Merchants in Early Modern Writing. Cranbury, NJ and Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002. 224 pp. $46.50. ISBN: 0-8386-3926-7. - Volume 56 Issue 3
Rematerializing Shakespeare’s Intertheatricality
At the beginning of 2 Henry 4 , Rumour represents himself as a global communications system that spans ‘orient’ and ‘drooping west.’ These compass points demarcate a space conceived both temporally (from sunrise to sunset) and geographically (from Asia to Europe). They also circumscribe the space of the theatrical, providing the imaginative limits within which Rumour can ‘unfold/ The acts commenced on this ball of earth’ — if not the Globe (built…
Four Exoskeletons and No Funeral
This essay considers the exoskeleton as a metaphor with which to understand the untimely duration of the past within the present, and in a fashion somewhat different from Jacques Derrida's "hauntology," which persists in figuring the past as a dead revenant that haunts the present. Building on Manuel de Landa's and Fredric Jameson's rather different uses of the metaphor, the essay offers close readings of both Byblos, an archaeological site in Le…
Sick Ethnography
The essays in the first section of Indography have suggested how early modern discourses of the "Indian" are not simply forms of proto-Orientalism or techniques of European power. They are also products of mutually transformative contact zones that worked as much to unsettle as to insist on clear-cut distinctions between "European" and "Indian." For every instance of early modern Indology that assumed Europe's primacy and the peripherality of the…
Indography
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Europeans invented 'Indians' and populated the world with them. The global history of the term 'Indian' remains largely unwritten and this volume, taking its
Hi Mho Jhi Kudd
Becoming-Indian
This chapter examines how travellers to the New World and to India made sense of their encounters by framing them specifically in reference to the performance techniques and even the architecture of the theatre, in ways both positive and negative. It first considers John Smith’s description of what he calls a ‘Virginia Maske’ in his Generall History of Virginia (1624), a reminder of how the specific textures of early modern theatricality rather t…
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