{"product_id":"shakespeares-universal-wolf-hugh-grady-9780198130048","title":"Shakespeare's Universal Wolf: Postmodernist Studies in Early Modern Reification","description":"In \u003cem\u003eTroilus and Cressida\u003c\/em\u003e, Shakespeare's image of \"an universal wolf\" of appetite, power, and will represented and critiqued the emerging systems of modernity: mercantile capitalism, Machiavellian politics, and value-free rationality. Rereading \u003cem\u003eTroilus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOthello\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAs You Like It\u003c\/em\u003e, Grady finds many parallels between Shakespeare's criticism and that of such critics as Marx, Horkheimer, Adorno, and Foucault, among others. In particular, Grady points to Shakespeare's keen interest in the twentieth-century concept of \"reification,\" where social systems spin out of control, operating under their own autonomous logic, beyond the reach of the society which had created them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hugh Grady\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019813004X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198130048\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Clarendon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d","brand":"Hugh Grady","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47419008385279,"sku":"9780198130048","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c99302ca-77e3-461e-9873-3bb2c223a36e.jpg?v=1761508885","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shakespeares-universal-wolf-hugh-grady-9780198130048","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}