Heterogenizing imagination: Globalization, The Merchant of Venice, and the work of literary criticism

New Literary History

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 425-437

  Stevens, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 60950192017     PISSN: 00286087     EISSN: 1080661X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2005.0049     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Quoted on the dust jacket of Jagdish Bhagwati, In Defense of Globalization (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) (passages from the book hereafter cited in text)
2. Quoted in Patricia Pollock Brodsky, "Colored Glass and Mirrors: Life with Rilke," in A Companion to the Works of Rainer Maria Rilke, ed. E. A. Metzger and M. M. Metzger (New York: Camden House, 2001), 27 (hereafter cited in text)
3. See Robert Bly, introduction to Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (New York: Harper and Row, 1981), 3-11
4. See Bly, Rainer Maria Rilke, 7
5. Bly, Iron John: A Book about Men (New York: Addison Wesley, 1990)
6. Bly, Iron John, 6, 1
7. Bly, Rainer Maria Rilke, 6-7, 10
8. See New York Times, May 30, 2004
9. See, for instance, Meaghan Morris, Too Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998)
10. John Ralston Saul, 'The Collapse of Globalism and the Rebirth of Nationalism," Harper's Magazine, March 2004, 33-43 (hereafter cited in text)
11. Globe and Mail, February 27, 2004
12. "Capitalism was from the beginning an affair of the world economy. . . . It is a misreading of the situation to claim that it is only in the twentieth century that capitalism became 'world-wide.'" Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein, The Capitalist World Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), 19
13. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, in The Oxford Shakespeare, ed. Jay L. Halio (Oxford: Clarendon, 1993), 3.3.24-25 (hereafter cited in text)
14. See, for instance, R. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926; Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1964), 197-270
15. For more on the ideological orientation of The Merchant of Yenice, see, for instance, Michael Ferber, "The Ideology of The Merchant of Venice" English Literary Renaissance 20, no. 3 (1990): 431-64
16. John Gillies, Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
17. and Theodore B. Leinwand, Theatre, Finance, and Society in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), esp. 113-20. Ferber (esp. 441-48) is particularly interesting in stressing the difference between Shakespeare's emphasis on risk and Weber's on Puritan asceticism - the peculiar power of the parable of talents may lie in the way it can be read as idealizing both risk-taking and calculating accumulation, both hazard and thrift. It implies that grace is both beyond and within our power to earn
18. Alex Calliuicos, Against the Third Way (Cambridge: Polity, 2001), 29
19. Calliuicos, Against the Third Way, 29
20. Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 133
21. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University7 Press, 2000), 241 (hereafter cited in text)
22. See Lynne Magnusson, Shakespeare and Social Dialogue: Dramatic Language and Elizabethan Letters (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), esp. 134-35
23. Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1976), 3
24. Without minimizing Chakrabarty's dilemma, Richard Helgerson likens it to that of early modern European thinkers who felt themselves both enabled and weighed down by the burden of their classical past, the achievements of a "foreign other that once enjoyed a large measure of political or cultural overlordship." "Before National Literary History," Modern Language Quarterly 64, no. 2 (2003): 177
25. John Milton, "L'Allegro,"' in Complete Poems and Major Prose, ed. Merritt Y. Hughes (Indianapolis, IN: Odyssey, 1957), lines 100-115
26. Milton, Paradise Lost, in Complete Poems and Major Prose, ed. Hughes, book 5, lines 100-113
27. Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, in The Oxford Shakespeare, ed. Peter Holland (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), 1.1.234
28. For more on the genealogy of imagination in Shakespeare and Milton, see John Guillory, Poetic Authority (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983)
29. and Paul Stevens, Imagination and the Presence of Shakespeare in 'Paradise Lost" (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985)
30. Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill (1906; Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1987), 42
31. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Refections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, rev. ed. (London: Verso, 1991)
32. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ed. J. Shawcross (1817; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962), 2:202
33. Matthew Arnold, "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" (1864), in Critical Theory Since Plato, ed. Hazard Adams (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971), 595