Shakespeare S Imagined Persons

Author : P. Murray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230376755

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Shakespeare’s Imagined Persons by P. Murray Pdf

Challenging our understanding of ideas about psychology in Shakespeare's time, Shakespeare's Imagined Persons proposes we should view his characters as imagined persons. A new reading of B.F. Skinner's radical behaviourism brings out how - contrary to the impression he created - Skinner ascribes an important role in human behaviour to cognitive activity. Using this analysis, Peter Murray demonstrates the consistency of radical behaviourism with the psychology of character formation and acting in writers from Plato to Shakespeare - an approach little explored in the current debates about subjectivity in Elizabethan culture. Murray also shows that radical behaviourism can explain the phenomena observed in modern studies of acting and social role-playing. Drawing on these analyses of earlier and modern psychology, Murray goes on to reveal the dynamics of Shakespeare's characterizations of Hamlet, Prince Hal, Rosalind, and Perdita in a fascinating new light.

Author : Robert J. Bertholf,Dale M. Smith
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826358929

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Imagining Persons by Robert J. Bertholf,Dale M. Smith Pdf

Robert Duncan’s nine lectures on Charles Olson, delivered intermittently from 1961 to 1983, explore the modernist literary background and influences of Olson’s influential 1950 essay “Projective Verse.” These transcribed talks pay tribute to Olson and expand our knowledge of Duncan’s vision of modernist writing.

Author : Ian Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 040698803X

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Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination by Ian Ward Pdf

This work offers an analysis of constitutional law, examining Shakespeare's plays as legal texts. Professor Ward uses the plays as a starting point to investigate the development of constitutional ideas such as sovereignty, commonwealth, conscience and moral law, and the art of government. In the developing area of law and literature, this book examines how Shakespeare's work offers a rich source of textual material on legal subjects.

Author : John S. Garrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192521439

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Shakespeare and the Afterlife by John S. Garrison Pdf

The question of what happens after death was a vital one in Shakespeare's time, as it is today. And, like today, the answers were by no means universally agreed upon. Early moderns held surprisingly diverse beliefs about the afterlife and about how earthly life affected one's fate after death. Was death akin to a sleep where one did not wake until judgment day? Were sick bodies healed in heaven? Did sinners experience torment after death? Would an individual reunite with loved ones in the afterlife? Could the dead communicate with the world of the living? Could the living affect the state of souls after death? How should the dead be commemorated? Could the dead return to life? Was immortality possible? The wide array of possible answers to these questions across Shakespeare's work can be surprising. Exploring how particular texts and characters answer these questions, Shakespeare and the Afterlife showcases the vitality and originality of the author's language and thinking. We encounter characters with very personal visions of what awaits them after death, and these visions reveal new insights into these individuals' motivations and concerns as they navigate the world of the living. Shakespeare and the Afterlife encourages us to engage with the author's work with new insight and new curiosity. The volume connects some of the best-known speeches, characters, and conflicts to cultural debates and traditions circulating during Shakespeare's time.

Author : Younglim Han
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0838638732

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Romantic Shakespeare by Younglim Han Pdf

These two criticisms are based on the presumption that only a socially and intellectually elite reader is able to view the author's language in terms of its organic relationship with the text as a whole. The Romantics focused on the interpretive reproduction of Shakespeare through sympathetic identification with his characters."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Sibylle Baumbach
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Physiognomy in literature
ISBN : 9781847600790

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Shakespeare and the Art of Physiognomy by Sibylle Baumbach Pdf

Author : Alexa Huang,Elizabeth Rivlin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137375773

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Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation by Alexa Huang,Elizabeth Rivlin Pdf

Making an important new contribution to rapidly expanding fields of study surrounding the adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation is the first book to address the intersection of ethics, aesthetics, authority, and authenticity.

Author : P. Yachnin,J. Slights
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230584150

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Shakespeare and Character by P. Yachnin,J. Slights Pdf

Shakespeare and Character brings together leading scholars in theory, literary criticism, and performance studies in order to redress a serious gap in Shakespeare studies and to put character back at the centre of our understanding of Shakespeare's achievement as an artist and thinker.

Author : Donald Wesling
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401205795

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Joys and Sorrows of Imaginary Persons by Donald Wesling Pdf

Joys and Sorrows of Imaginary Persons is a literary approach to consciousness where Donald Wesling denies that emotion is the scandal or handmaid of reason—rather emotion is the co-creator with reason of human life in the world. Discoveries in neuro-science in the 1990s Decade of the Brain have proven that thinking and feeling are wrapped with each other, and regulate and fulfill each other. Accepting this co-creative equality, we reveal a new role for literature, or a traditional role we’ve repressed: literature as a set of processes in time where we’ve thought feeling through stories about the lives of imaginary persons. We need these stories in order to practice emotions for when we return to the world from reading. Donald Wesling argues that to be more accurate in our dealings with stories, we require a grammar of this new recognition, where we build up traditional stylistics by a more careful tracking of emotion-states as these are set into writing. The first half of Joys and Sorrows of Imaginary Persons offers a creative stock-taking of the current state of scholarship on emotion, based on wide reading in several fields. The second half gives three focused studies, rich in examples, of emotion as cognition, as story, and as historical structure of feeling.

Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470776896

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Shakespeare's Tragedies by Emma Smith Pdf

This Guide steers students through the critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies from the sixteenth century to the present day. Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies. Covers both significant early views and recent critical interventions. Substantial editorial material links the articles and places them in context. Annotated suggestions for further reading allow students to investigate further.

Author : Jennifer Ann Bates
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438432434

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Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination by Jennifer Ann Bates Pdf

Study of self-consciousness in Hegel and Shakespeare.

Author : Graham Bradshaw,Tom Bishop
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754665720

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Special Section, European Shakespeares by Graham Bradshaw,Tom Bishop Pdf

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on European Shakespeares, which highlights how the inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a European but also a world affair. Contributors to this issue come from Europe, North America, South Africa, and India. In addition to the section on European Shakespeares, essays in this volume consider issues of character and the genre of romance, and other topics.

Author : Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin,Sarah Hatchuel
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 2877758400

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Shakespeare on screen : Television Shakespeare by Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin,Sarah Hatchuel Pdf

« Television Shakespeare » : l’expression a-t-elle encore un sens à une époque où Shakespeare à la télévision ne se réduit plus à la série BBC mais est devenu, notamment au fil des innovations technologiques, un concept de plus en plus hybride, porteur d’une infinie variété ? Ce volume offre au lecteur un examen précis d’adaptations télévisuelles des pièces shakespeariennes tout en questionnant les limites poreuses que le 21e siècle fait apparaître entre la télévision et les autres médias, Shakespeare semblant pouvoir ou devoir se prêter à toutes les métamorphoses.

Author : Christopher R. Wilson,Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1289 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780190945145

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music by Christopher R. Wilson,Mervyn Cooke Pdf

"This compendium reflects the latest international research into the many and various uses of music in relation to Shakespeare's plays and poems, the contributors' lines of enquiry extending from the Bard's own time to the present day. The coverage is global in its scope, and includes studies of Shakespeare-related music in countries as diverse as China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, and the Soviet Union, as well as the more familiar Anglophone musical and theatrical traditions of the UK and USA. The range of genres surveyed by the book's team of distinguished authors embraces music for theatre, opera, ballet, musicals, the concert hall, and film, in addition to Shakespeare's ongoing afterlives in folk music, jazz, and popular music. The authors take a range of diverse approaches: some investigate the evidence for performative practices in the Early Modern and later eras, while others offer detailed analyses of representative case studies, situating these firmly in their cultural contexts, or reflecting on the political and sociological ramifications of the music. As a whole, the volume provides a wide-ranging compendium of cutting-edge scholarship engaging with an extraordinarily rich body of music without parallel in the history of the global arts"--

Author : Piotr Sadowski
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874138469

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Dynamism of Character in Shakespeare's Mature Tragedies by Piotr Sadowski Pdf

The theory considers human behavior in terms of functional equilibrium between the stable properties of the mind, independent from the pressures of the sociocultural environment and the immediate situational context. What we call "character" thus denotes an autonomous configuration of psychological elements, which remains stable despite the changing external circumstances.