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ISBN13: 9780819565488
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Written between 1947 and 1960 and first published in 1963, the prose work in the first of these two volumes reflects Louis Zukofsky's ongoing obsession with Shakespeare-whose plays he had first seen performed in Yiddish-and is central to understanding Zukofsky's work. Tracing the themes of knowledge, love and physical vision ("the eyes have it") through both Shakespeare's plays and the poetry, Bottom: On Shakespeare is more than a compendious act of homage by one poet to another. In effect, it lays out Zukofsky's poetics and theory of knowledge on a grand scale, tracing his themes through the whole of Western culture, from the Classical Greeks through William Carlos Williams. The second volume of Bottom: On Shakespeare consists of Celia Thaew Zukofsky's spare operatic setting of Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre, a play in which Zukofsky saw Shakespeare rewriting the classic plots and tropes of the Odyssey. The Wesleyan edition features a new foreword by Bob Perelman.
| ISBN-13 | 9780819565488 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0819565482 |
| Weight | 2.69 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 7.00 x 1.50 x 10.00 In |
| List Price | $45.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 712 pages |
| Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
| Published On | 2002-08-21 |
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