Othello and Interpretive TraditionsUniversity of Iowa Press, 1. 2. 2012 - Počet stran: 228 During the past twenty years or so, Othello has become the Shakespearean tragedy that speaks most powerfully to our contemporary concerns. Focusing on race and gender (and on class, ethnicity, sexuality, and nationality), the play talks about what audiences want to talk about. Yet at the same time, as refracted through Iago, it forces us to hear what we do not want to hear; like the characters in the play, we become trapped in our own prejudicial malice and guilt. |
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... thing , and the distinction is merely a matter of analytic convenience . But that's a major qualification . In prac- tical terms , we cannot say anything about Othello without deciding ( consciously or otherwise ) this matter of ...
... thing , and the distinction is merely a matter of analytic convenience . But that's a major qualification . In prac- tical terms , we cannot say anything about Othello without deciding ( consciously or otherwise ) this matter of ...
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... thing ? ' : Sex and Sexual Stories in Othello , " Shakespeare Survey 49 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 ) , 201-216 ; " Why Should We Call Her Whore ? Bianca in Othello , " in Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century : The ...
... thing ? ' : Sex and Sexual Stories in Othello , " Shakespeare Survey 49 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 ) , 201-216 ; " Why Should We Call Her Whore ? Bianca in Othello , " in Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century : The ...
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... thing : Othello has a peculiar power " to haunt us as an uncanny projection , from the past , of our conflicted present " ( 1 ) . Conflict , though , is not unique to Othello ; we need to be more spe- cific . During the period of ...
... thing : Othello has a peculiar power " to haunt us as an uncanny projection , from the past , of our conflicted present " ( 1 ) . Conflict , though , is not unique to Othello ; we need to be more spe- cific . During the period of ...
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... for an expression of the interest it is analyzing . Some- thing like this could be said about , and in the midst of , any academic lecture , but it usually isn't . My colleague was Othello and Interpretive Traditions { 3 }
... for an expression of the interest it is analyzing . Some- thing like this could be said about , and in the midst of , any academic lecture , but it usually isn't . My colleague was Othello and Interpretive Traditions { 3 }
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... things into the dual western consciousness of white self and alien other " ( 234 ) . There is a third possibility apart from theatrical and cultural history , derived from a reversal of the procedures that generate these two prac- tices ...
... things into the dual western consciousness of white self and alien other " ( 234 ) . There is a third possibility apart from theatrical and cultural history , derived from a reversal of the procedures that generate these two prac- tices ...
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11 | |
30 | |
lago | 53 |
The Fall of Othello | 79 |
The Pity Act | 113 |
Death without Transfiguration | 141 |
Interpretation as Contamination | 169 |
Character Endures | 183 |
Notes | 193 |
Works Cited | 231 |
Index | 247 |
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