Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human SoulLexington Books, 17. 1. 2001 - Počet stran: 416 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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... to Existentialism , from Old Historicism to New Historicism , from New Criticism to Postmodernism . It is not surprising that before long all such ap- proaches would finally play themselves out , leaving the impression ix Preface.
... to Existentialism , from Old Historicism to New Historicism , from New Criticism to Postmodernism . It is not surprising that before long all such ap- proaches would finally play themselves out , leaving the impression ix Preface.
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Hamlet and the Human Soul Jan H. Blits. proaches would finally play themselves out , leaving the impression that everything important has already been uttered . The problem is not that the critics have exhausted Hamlet . It is rather ...
Hamlet and the Human Soul Jan H. Blits. proaches would finally play themselves out , leaving the impression that everything important has already been uttered . The problem is not that the critics have exhausted Hamlet . It is rather ...
Strana 17
... Finally , Hamlet itself is a duplication or an imitation . The play is based on Saxo Grammaticus's twelfth - century legend of Amleth , Prince of Jutland , which , in turn , is based on Livy's story of Junius Brutus . Polonius , who ...
... Finally , Hamlet itself is a duplication or an imitation . The play is based on Saxo Grammaticus's twelfth - century legend of Amleth , Prince of Jutland , which , in turn , is based on Livy's story of Junius Brutus . Polonius , who ...
Strana 59
... . ( " uses " ) of this world . One wonders whether he has forgotten his father . And having renounced all the ways of the world , Hamlet finally re- nounces the world itself : Fie on't , ah fie , ' tis an unweeded Act 1 59.
... . ( " uses " ) of this world . One wonders whether he has forgotten his father . And having renounced all the ways of the world , Hamlet finally re- nounces the world itself : Fie on't , ah fie , ' tis an unweeded Act 1 59.
Strana 60
... finally , of the world itself . Hamlet's wish to melt or to die expands into his indictment of the world as such . Not only is his life not worth living , but no life , it seems , could be . This is not the only time that Hamlet will ...
... finally , of the world itself . Hamlet's wish to melt or to die expands into his indictment of the world as such . Not only is his life not worth living , but no life , it seems , could be . This is not the only time that Hamlet will ...
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