Candied Cleopatra: : The Cute Aesthetics of Shakespeare’s Political Theology

ABSTRACT This essay brokers an unlikely connection between Sianne Ngai’s "weak" aesthetic category of the cute and Carl Schmitt’s aesthetics of political theology through a reading of the soft, sticky, diminutive, melting object world of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Like Ngai, Schmi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. in. - University of Pennsylvania Press. - 16(2016), 3, Seite 30-45
1. Verfasser: GORDON, COLBY (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2016
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Schlagworte:Shakespeare Sianne Ngai aesthetics political theology Carl Schmitt Hobbes