Unphenomenal Shakespeare: Pending Critical Quarrels https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/aaao743/ Author: Jiménez Heffernan, Julián. Type: Book Monograph Year: 2023 Publication Information: Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023. x + 627 Series Statement: (Costerus New Series: Studies in English Worldwide, 232.) Annotation: "Brandish[es] an unphenomenal Shakespeare against ... current phenomenalization of his work" (cf. Smith), finding "hermeneutic poverty" in today's "critical practices." Draws extensively on continental philosophy, including Husserl, Hegel, Derrida, de Saussure, and Levinas. Positions Ophelia as unphenomenal in the philosophical sense. Considers Tempest in relation to posthumanism. Language: English Cross-References: Smith, Phenomenal Shakespeare Persons: Smith, Bruce R.; Husserl, Edmund; Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich; Levinas, Emmanuel; de Saussure, Ferdinand; Derrida, Jacques Keywords: philosophy Tags: Hamlet, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Tempest WSB Update: Fall 2025 WSB Record Number: aaao743