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The Abject of Desire in Shakespeare's Hamlet

André Valente
The Abject of Desire in Shakespeare s Hamlet Book PDF

Author : André Valente
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640731275

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Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne, course: Hauptseminar: Gothic Renaissance, language: English, abstract: Nor dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all ... He knows death to the bone - Man has created death. (W. B. Yeats, "Death") If Yeats is right by saying that man has created death, or rather the idea of death, then it is not surprising that what people thought about death in the past differs from the attitudes we have today and even across different cultures, the feelings concerning death and its representation vary. As Neill states in his study, Renaissance tragic drama is about "the discovery of death and the mapping of its meanings" and he mentions that Hamlet is a play "whose action is obsessively concerned with the exploration of mortality" (1997: 1). According to Zimmerman the play creates an "unsettling atmosphere of existence on the margins, of half-states in which neither life nor death holds sway" (2005: 172). This in-betweenness is also something that Julia Kristeva investigates in her influential study The powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980). She develops the theory of the abject, which is primarily concerned with the state of something that is between subject and object and therefore, arouses a feeling of uncanniness. This paper is concerned with the exploration of these margins and half-states concerning death in Hamlet. The investigation has two main aims. First, it wants to identify occurrences of death in Hamlet, which are marked by ambiguity and uncertainty, i.e. with an abject death according to Julia Kristeva's theory. Second, it tries to answer the questions why a particular appearance of death in the play is abject and whether cultural conventions and the religious development of the Reformation in England at that time influenced the effects and affects evoked with the Elizabethan audience

"The Abject of Desire" in Shakespeare's Hamlet

André Valente
The Abject of Desire in Shakespeare s Hamlet Book PDF

Author : André Valente
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783640731312

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"The Abject of Desire" in Shakespeare's Hamlet by André Valente Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne, course: Hauptseminar: Gothic Renaissance, language: English, abstract: Nor dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all ... He knows death to the bone – Man has created death. (W. B. Yeats, “Death”) If Yeats is right by saying that man has created death, or rather the idea of death, then it is not surprising that what people thought about death in the past differs from the attitudes we have today and even across different cultures, the feelings concerning death and its representation vary. As Neill states in his study, Renaissance tragic drama is about “the discovery of death and the mapping of its meanings” and he mentions that Hamlet is a play “whose action is obsessively concerned with the exploration of mortality” (1997: 1). According to Zimmerman the play creates an “unsettling atmosphere of existence on the margins, of half-states in which neither life nor death holds sway” (2005: 172). This in–betweenness is also something that Julia Kristeva investigates in her influential study The powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980). She develops the theory of the abject, which is primarily concerned with the state of something that is between subject and object and therefore, arouses a feeling of uncanniness. This paper is concerned with the exploration of these margins and half-states concerning death in Hamlet. The investigation has two main aims. First, it wants to identify occurrences of death in Hamlet, which are marked by ambiguity and uncertainty, i.e. with an abject death according to Julia Kristeva’s theory. Second, it tries to answer the questions why a particular appearance of death in the play is abject and whether cultural conventions and the religious development of the Reformation in England at that time influenced the effects and affects evoked with the Elizabethan audience. “Shakespeare’s plays are works that live as much in their written/printed as in their performative re-productions and that [...] are therefore most fruitfully examined in both forms side by side” (Aebischer 2004: 13). Taking this assumption as a preliminary, the analysis in this paper focuses on the text of the play, as well as on practical questions concerning performance and stage conventions in the Elizabethan time.

Literature in Psychoanalysis

Steven Vine
Literature in Psychoanalysis Book PDF

Author : Steven Vine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230213548

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Literature in Psychoanalysis by Steven Vine Pdf

This collection of psychoanalytic readings of literary texts and literary readings of psychoanalytic texts has been carefully designed to work as an effective teaching text for introducing students to the complexities of psychoanalytic theory in practice. The texts selected are widely studied and map the development of the field from Freud up to the most contemporary work.

Presentist Shakespeares

Hugh Grady,Terence Hawkes
Presentist Shakespeares Book PDF

Author : Hugh Grady,Terence Hawkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781134172801

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Presentist Shakespeares by Hugh Grady,Terence Hawkes Pdf

Featuring an outstanding list of contributors, this collection of readings adopt a new approach to Shakespeare by focusing on the principles of ‘presentism’ – a critical movement that takes account of the continual dialogue between past and present.

Shakespeare and Literary Theory

Jonathan Gil Harris
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Author : Jonathan Gil Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199573387

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'a new series of handsomely produced volumes.... [Of Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres:] students could not wish for a better introduction to the resources and conventions of the original Globe than the opening chapters... Shakespeare and Eastern Europe by Zdenek Stribrn2 is full of interest... --

Shakespeare - Hamlet

Huw Griffiths
Shakespeare Hamlet Book PDF

Author : Huw Griffiths
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230209237

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Shakespeare - Hamlet by Huw Griffiths Pdf

Hamlet is one of the best known works of English literature throughout the world, and its central character one of Shakespeare's most recognisable and enduring creations. Hamlet's first critics in the 17th century were, however, concerned with the play's apparent lack of decorum, whilst the Romantics revelled in the melancholy prince's isolation. Caught between a dead father and a remarried mother, Hamlet inevitably provided scope for Freud and the psychoanalytic writers of the 20th century. The play has retained its fascination for more recent critics and every new interpretation provides fuel for further study. In this Guide, Huw Griffiths traces the history of the play's criticism from the 1660s through to the present day. Readers are provided with substantial excerpts from all the key critical readings - including accounts of the interaction between film versions and critical interpretations. Griffiths places each reading of the play within its own historical context and within the history of literary criticism, offering both students and teachers an approachable introduction to the critical fortunes of this most influential text.

The Sublime Object of Ideology

Slavoj Žižek
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Author : Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Verso
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0860919714

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The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Žižek Pdf

In this provocative and original work, Slavoj _i_ek takes a look at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. From the sinking of the Titanic to Hitchcock’s Rear Window, from the operas of Wagner to science fiction, from Alien to the Jewish Joke, the author’s acute analyses explore the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society. _i_ek takes issue with analysts of the postmodern condition from Habermas to Sloterdijk, showing that the idea of a ‘post-ideological’ world ignores the fact that ‘even if we do not take things seriously, we are still doing them’. Rejecting postmodernism’s unified world of surfaces, he traces a line of thought from Hegel to Althusser and Lacan, in which the human subject is split, divided by a deep antagonism which determines social reality and through which ideology operates. Linking key psychoanalytical and philosophical concepts to social phenomena such as totalitarianism and racism, the book explores the political significance of these fantasies of control. In so doing, The Sublime Object of Ideology represents a powerful contribution to a psychoanalytical theory of ideology, as well as offering persuasive interpretations of a number of contemporary cultural formations.

Shakespeare and Appropriation

Christy Desmet,Robert Sawyer
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Author : Christy Desmet,Robert Sawyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134622610

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Shakespeare and Appropriation by Christy Desmet,Robert Sawyer Pdf

The vitality of our culture is still often measured by the status Shakespeare has within it. Contemporary readers and writers continue to exploit Shakespeare's cultural afterlife in a vivid and creative way. This fascinating collection of original essays shows how writers' efforts to imitate, contradict, compete with, and reproduce Shakespeare keep him in the cultural conversation. The essays: * analyze the methods and motives of Shakespearean appropriation * investigate theoretically the return of the repressed author in discussions of Shakespeare's cultural function * put into dialogue theoretical and literary responses to Shakespeare's cultural authority * analyze works ranging from nineteenth century to the present, and genres ranging from poetry and the novel to Disney movies.

SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET IN AN ERA OF TEXTUAL EXHAUSTION

Sonya Freeman Loftis,Allison Kellar,Lisa Ulevich
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Author : Sonya Freeman Loftis,Allison Kellar,Lisa Ulevich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351967457

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SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET IN AN ERA OF TEXTUAL EXHAUSTION by Sonya Freeman Loftis,Allison Kellar,Lisa Ulevich Pdf

"Post-Hamlet: Shakespeare in an Era of Textual Exhaustion" examines how postmodern audiences continue to reengage with Hamlet in spite of our culture’s oversaturation with this most canonical of texts. Combining adaptation theory and performance theory with examinations of avant-garde performances and other unconventional appropriations of Shakespeare’s play, Post-Hamlet examines Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a central symbol of our era’s "textual exhaustion," an era in which the reader/viewer is bombarded by text—printed, digital, and otherwise. The essays in this edited collection, divided into four sections, focus on the radical employment of Hamlet as a cultural artifact that adaptors and readers use to depart from textual "authority" in, for instance, radical English-language performance, international film and stage performance, pop-culture and multi-media appropriation, and pedagogy.

Lacan and the Destiny of Literature

Ehsan Azari
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Author : Ehsan Azari
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441174178

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Lacan and the Destiny of Literature by Ehsan Azari Pdf

In contemporary academic literary studies, Lacan is often considered impenetrably obscure, due to the unavailability of his late works, insufficient articulation of his methodologies and sometimes stereotypical use of Lacanian concepts in literary theory. This study aims to integrate Lacan into contemporary literary study by engaging with a broad range of Lacanian theoretical concepts, often for the first time in English, and using them to analyse a range of key texts from different periods. Azari explores Lacan's theory of desire as well as his final theories of lituraterre, littoral, and the sinthome and interrogates a range of poststructuralist interpretive approaches. In the second part of the book, he outlines the variety of ways in which Lacanian theory can be applied to literary texts and offers detailed readings of texts by Shakespeare, Donne, Joyce and Ashbery. This ground-breaking study provides original insights into a number of the most influential intellectual discussions in relation to Lacan and will fill a recognised gap in understanding Lacan and his legacy for literary study and criticism.

Shakespeare’s Things

Brett Gamboa,Lawrence Switzky
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Author : Brett Gamboa,Lawrence Switzky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000750928

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Shakespeare’s Things by Brett Gamboa,Lawrence Switzky Pdf

Floating daggers, enchanted handkerchiefs, supernatural storms, and moving statues have tantalized Shakespeare’s readers and audiences for centuries. The essays in Shakespeare’s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance renew attention to non-human influence and agency in the plays, exploring how Shakespeare anticipates new materialist thought, thing theory, and object studies while presenting accounts of intention, action, and expression that we have not yet noticed or named. By focusing on the things that populate the plays—from commodities to props, corpses to relics—they find that canonical Shakespeare, inventor of the human, gives way to a lesser-known figure, a chronicler of the ceaseless collaboration among persons, language, the stage, the object world, audiences, the weather, the earth, and the heavens.

Shakespeare's Hamlet

Tzachi Zamir
Shakespeare s Hamlet Book PDF

Author : Tzachi Zamir
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780190698515

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Shakespeare's Hamlet by Tzachi Zamir Pdf

This book assembles a team of leading literary scholars and philosophers to probe philosophical questions that assert themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet, including issues about subjectivity, knowledge, sex, grief, and self-theatricalization.

Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis

Philip Armstrong
Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis Book PDF

Author : Philip Armstrong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134622689

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Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis by Philip Armstrong Pdf

The link between psychoanalysis as a mode of interpretation and Shakespeare's works is well known. But rather than merely putting Shakespeare on the couch, Philip Armstrong focuses on the complex and fascinatingly fruitful mutual relationship between Shakespeare's texts and psychoanalytic theory. He shows how the theories of Freud, Rank, Jones, Lacan, Erikson, and others are themselves in a large part the product of reading Shakespeare. Armstrong provides an introductory cultural history of the relationship between psychoanalytic concepts and Shakespearean texts. This is played out in a variety of expected and unexpected contexts, including: *the early modern stage *Hamlet and The Tempest *Freud's analytic session *the Parisian intellectual scene *Hollywood *the virtual space of the PC.

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare s Hamlet Book PDF

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438129341

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William Shakespeare's Hamlet by William Shakespeare Pdf

Presents a collection of critical essays about William Shakespeare's play, "Hamlet."

After Oedipus

Julia Reinhard Lupton,Kenneth Reinhard
After Oedipus Book PDF

Author : Julia Reinhard Lupton,Kenneth Reinhard
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 080149687X

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After Oedipus by Julia Reinhard Lupton,Kenneth Reinhard Pdf

Exploring the dialogue between psychoanalytic and literary discourses, the authors examine the models of plot, character, and ways of reading which each of these discourses has developed in interpreting Shakespeare. Since Freud's writings on Oedipus and Hamlet, Shakespearean tragedy has been paradigmatic for psychoanalytic theory and criticism. In this ambitious and highly imaginative book, the authors trace the dialogue between psychoanalytic and literary discourses by examining the models of plot, character, and ways of reading which each tradition has developed through its interpretation of Shakespeare.