Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama: Subjectivity, Discourse and the Stage (1997)
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- Synopsis
- This book documents the changing representation of subjectivity in Medieval and Early Modern English drama by intertextually exploring discourses of 'self-speaking', including soliloquy. Pre-modern ideas about language are combined with recent models of subject formation, especially Lacan's, to theorize and analyze the stage 'self' as a variable linguistic construct. Both the approach itself and the conclusions it generates significantly diverge from the standard New Historicist/Cultural Materialist narrative of subjectivity. Plays range from the Corpus Christi pageants to the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, with Shakespeare a recurrent focus and Hamlet, inevitably, the pivotal text.
- Copyright:
- 1997
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- ISBN-13:
- 9780230372894
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780333628997
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
- Date of Addition:
- 12/08/20
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- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
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- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Reference, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Philosophy
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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