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1、Shakespeare,Brecht,andtheInterculturalSignPOST-CONTEMPORARYINTERVENTIONSSeriesEditors:StanleyFish&FredricJameson&AntonyTatlowSHAKESPEARE,BRECHT,ANDTHEINTERCULTURALSIGN&DukeUniversityPressDurham&London2001∫2001DukeUniversityPressAllrightsreservedPrintedintheUnitedStatesof
2、Americaonacid-freepaper$DesignedbyC.H.WestmorelandTypesetinDantewithFrutigerdisplaybyKeystoneTypesetting,Inc.LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataappearonthelastprintedpageofthisbook.ForDidiandCli√ordThispageintentionallyleftblankCONTENTSPrefaceixPrologue11Readi
3、ngtheIntercultural:CulturesofReading52InterculturalSigns:TextualAnthropology313Desire,Laughter,andtheSocialUnconscious804HistoricizingtheUnconsciousinPlautineandShakespeareanFarce1165CoriolanusandtheHistoricalText1516MacbethinKunjuOpera189Epilogue219Notes233WorksCited275
4、Index287ThispageintentionallyleftblankPREFACEBorninDublin,educatedinIreland,England,andGermany,andlivingforoverthirtyyearsinEastAsia,Ihavebeenintriguedbythee√ectofculturalpresuppositionsuponrepresentationandinterpretation.Ifvari-ationsinculturalexpressionwithinEuropeinit
5、iallyfascinatedme,theywereasnothingcomparedwiththechallengeofgroundingthedi√er-encesbetweenWesternandEasterncultures.AppointedbytheUniversityofHongKongin1965toteachWesternliterature,theattractionofinterculturalstudydevelopedintoanincom-parableadventure,turningmycomfortab
6、leassumptionsupsidedown,asIbegantounderstandtheirrelativity,butalsohelpingmetoescapedeeperfrustrations.Encounteringothercultures,our‘‘own’’isdistancedanddefamiliarized,thefirstessentialstepinreallyunderstandingit,letaloneanyotherone.Computingothervaluesystemsnowassumesdi√
7、erentdimensionsastheynolongernecessarilyconfronteachotherfromseparated,clearlydemarcatedpositions,butbegintointerpene-trate.Thevisualartoftheaterhasbenefitedfromsuchopportunities.Whatdothesedevelopmentstellusabouttheneedstheyexternalize?Thisbookdevelopsapreliminarystudy,S
8、hakespeareandthePoliticsoftheSign,expandingitintotopicsthathavebeenneglectedindiscussionsofintercultura