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Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Controversies of Self
by Lee, John
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0198185049
- ISBN 13
- 9780198185048
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About This Item
Oxford University Press, 2000-12-14. Hardcover. Like New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Jacket lightly creased. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xi, 266 p., 25 cm. <br> "This book offers a new approach to the discussion of English Renaissance literary subjectivity. Dissatisfied with much New Historicist and Cultural Materialistic criticism, it attempts to trace the history of the controversies of self. William Hazlitt emerges as a pioneering figure in a tradition of literary criticism which this book tries to advance. Drawing on the personal construct theory of George A. Kelly, and on the moral theory of Alasdair MacIntyre, the textual ways are traced by which 'That within' Hamlet is constructed. In an argument that challenges some of the founding propositions of New Historicist and Cultural Materialist practice, the Prince is seen to have a self-constituting, as opposed to a self-fashioning, sense of self. This sense of self is neither essentialist nor transhistorical; using the work of Charles Taylor, the play is seen to be exploring a Montaignesque, as opposed to Cartesian, notion of subjectivity. The controversies of self are, in fact, an issue within Shakespeare's play; and if the notion of Folio and Quarto Princes is allowed, it may even be at issue within the play. Hamlet debates our debate." - Oxford University Press
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- SequiturBooks (US)
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- Title
- Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Controversies of Self
- Author
- Lee, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0198185049
- ISBN 13
- 9780198185048
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Date Published
- 2000-12-14
- X weight
- 18 oz
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