Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human SoulLexington Books, 2001 - 405 páginas The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul, which makes man a rational animal, expresses itself above all in human action. Deadly Thought: "Hamlet" and the Human Soul traces Hamlet's famous inability to act to his inability to hold together these twin aspects of the soul. Combining careful attention to detail and interpretive breadth, noted scholar Jan H. Blits deftly illustrates how Hamlet collapses life into thought, and moral action into stage acting, and ultimately comes to see his own life as a stage play. Hamlet, the book demonstrates, epitomizes the intellectualism of the Renaissance and the modern age it began, and so becomes tragedy's first self-conscious protagonist, signaling the end of ancient tragedy. Erudite, innovative, and lively, Deadly Thought is a ground-breaking contribution that will appeal to Shakespeare scholars, political theorists, historians of philosophy, literary theorists and anyone interested in a truly fresh interpretation of this classic work. |
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... answering ) the assum- edly disarming question , Why another book on Hamlet ? The ques- tion tacitly presumes that everything significant about the play has already been said , perhaps ad nauseam . There is , of course , a vast body of ...
... answering ) the assum- edly disarming question , Why another book on Hamlet ? The ques- tion tacitly presumes that everything significant about the play has already been said , perhaps ad nauseam . There is , of course , a vast body of ...
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... answers : A beast , no more . Sure he that made us with such large discourse , Looking before and after , gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd . ( 4.4.33-39 ) To be a man means not only to be alive 12 ...
... answers : A beast , no more . Sure he that made us with such large discourse , Looking before and after , gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd . ( 4.4.33-39 ) To be a man means not only to be alive 12 ...
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... answer , however , Hamlet is unable to keep the soul's two functions together . He thinks without acting ( " [ T ] he native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought " [ 3.1.84-85 ] ) and acts without thinking ...
... answer , however , Hamlet is unable to keep the soul's two functions together . He thinks without acting ( " [ T ] he native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought " [ 3.1.84-85 ] ) and acts without thinking ...
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... answered . Shakespeare , likewise , emphasizes doubling in the characters ' speech . We frequently hear oxymorons , antitheses , doubles , priva- tives , puns , echoes , conjunctions , disjunctions , contradictions , comparisons , and ...
... answered . Shakespeare , likewise , emphasizes doubling in the characters ' speech . We frequently hear oxymorons , antitheses , doubles , priva- tives , puns , echoes , conjunctions , disjunctions , contradictions , comparisons , and ...
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... answers the single combat we hear of at the start of the play , with Hamlet undoing what his father had done and young ... answer- ing correspondingly placed earlier ones.34 And just as the scenes thus tend to be symmetrically arranged ...
... answers the single combat we hear of at the start of the play , with Hamlet undoing what his father had done and young ... answer- ing correspondingly placed earlier ones.34 And just as the scenes thus tend to be symmetrically arranged ...
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Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to be John E. Curran Vista de fragmentos - 2006 |
Perspectives on Politics in Shakespeare John Albert Murley,Sean D. Sutton Vista previa limitada - 2006 |