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The Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare counters a tradition of cultural analysis that judges considerations of aesthetic autonomy in the early modern context to be either anachronistic or an index of political disengagement. Pye argues that for a post-theocratic era in which the mise-en-forme of the social domain itself was for the first time at stake, the problem of the aesthetic lay at the very core of the political; it is precisely through its engagement with the question of aesthetic autonomy that early modern works most profoundly explore their relation to matters of law, state, sovereignty, and political subjectivity.Pye establishes the significance of a “creationist” political aesthetic—at once a discrete historical category and a phenomenon that troubles our familiar forms of historical accounting—and suggests that the fate of such an aesthetic is intimately bound up with the emergence of modern conceptions of the political sphere.The Storm at Sea moves historically from Leonardo da Vinci to Thomas Hobbes; it focuses on Shakespeare and English drama, with chapters on Hamlet, Othello, A Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest, as well as sustained readings of As You Like It, King Lear, Thomas Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy, and Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. Engaging political thinkers such as Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben, Claude Lefort, and Roberto Esposito, The Storm at Sea will be of interest to political theorists as well as to students of literary and visual theory.

Aesthetics --- Politics and literature --- Political aspects. --- History. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Political and social views. --- Early Modernism. --- Leonardo da Vinci. --- Renaissance Art. --- Renaissance Drama. --- Shakespeare. --- Sovereignty. --- Thomas Hobbes. --- aesthetics. --- literary theory. --- political theory.

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Die frühe Moderne gilt als eine Epoche sich dynamisierender Geschlechterbeziehungen. Skandinavien nimmt in dieser Hinsicht eine Vorbildfunktion für den deutschsprachigen Diskurs ein. Anhand von Romanen von Thomas Mann, Gabriele Reuter, Herman Bang und Toni Schwabe zeigt Jenny Bauer, dass die Diversität literarischer Identitätsentwürfe eng an die Produktion sozialer, nationaler und imaginärer Räume gebunden ist. Diese verschiedenen Dimensionen des Raumes bilden das Kernstück von Henri Lefebvres Theorie, die hier erstmals zur Analyse literarischer Texte eingesetzt wird. In diesem Zusammenhang werden Korrelationen zwischen Lefebvres prozesshaftem Raumdenken und aktuellen Gender-Theorien sichtbar. »Neben der nachvollziehbaren thematischen Fokussierung hilft auch die sprachliche Prägnanz, mit der Bauer durch die Komplexität ihres theoretischen und literarischen Forschungsgegenstandes führt, Neueinsteiger/-innen dabei, sich die Lehre Lefebvres zu erschließen.« Katharina Fürholzer, www.querelles-net.de, 18/3 (2017) »Bauers Arbeit beeindruckt insgesamt mit etlichen, sehr detaillierten close readings prägnanter Stellen, um ihre Thesen zu validieren. Fast immer gelingt ihr dies glänzend. Darüber hinaus bietet sie einige erhellende Reflexionen und innovative Lesarten der Romane.« Rolf Löchel, Freiburger literaturpsychologische Gespräche, 36 (2017)

Frühe Moderne; Spatial Turn; Gender; Queer; Subjekt; Raum; Kultur; Henri Lefebvre; Thomas Mann; Gabriele Reuter; Herman Bang; Toni Schwabe; Literatur; Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft; Germanistik; Gender Studies; Literaturwissenschaft; Early Modernism; Subject; Space; Culture; Literature; General Literature Studies; German Literature; Literary Studies; --- Lefebvre, Henri, --- Mann, Thomas, --- Reuter, Gabriele, --- Bang, Herman, --- Schwabe, Toni, 1877-1951. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Culture. --- Gabriele Reuter. --- Gender Studies. --- Gender. --- General Literature Studies. --- German Literature. --- Henri Lefebvre. --- Herman Bang. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Queer. --- Space. --- Spatial Turn. --- Subject. --- Thomas Mann. --- Toni Schwabe.