Shame in ShakespeareRoutledge, 2012 M09 10 - 288 pages One of the most intense and painful of our human passions, shame is typically seen in contemporary culture as a disability or a disease to be cured. Shakespeare's ultimately positive portrayal of the emotion challenges this view. Drawing on philosophers and theorists of shame, Shame in Shakespeare analyses the shame and humiliation suffered by the tragic hero, providing not only a new approach to Shakespeare but a committed and provocative argument for reclaiming shame. The volume provides: · an account of previous traditions of shame and of the Renaissance context · a thematic map of the rich manifestations of both masculine and feminine shame in Shakespeare · detailed readings of Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear · an analysis of the limitations of Roman shame in Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus · a polemical discussion of the fortunes of shame in modern literature after Shakespeare. The book presents a Shakespearean vision of shame as the way to the world outside the self. It establishes the continued vitality and relevance of Shakespeare and offers a fresh and exciting way of seeing his tragedies. |
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... desire ; the Marxist thinker Theodor Adorno memorably saw this as putting psychoanalysis in reverse , aiming at wholesale replacement of the Ego by the Id . Contemporary art is often brazenly sensa- tionalist , to the point that a ...
... desire ; the Marxist thinker Theodor Adorno memorably saw this as putting psychoanalysis in reverse , aiming at wholesale replacement of the Ego by the Id . Contemporary art is often brazenly sensa- tionalist , to the point that a ...
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... desire ( Scruton 1986 ) . As we shall see in the concluding chapter , there is a strain of contemporary fiction that reinstates shame , including Salman Rushdie's Shame ( 1983 ) and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace , winner of the 1999 Booker ...
... desire ( Scruton 1986 ) . As we shall see in the concluding chapter , there is a strain of contemporary fiction that reinstates shame , including Salman Rushdie's Shame ( 1983 ) and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace , winner of the 1999 Booker ...
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... desires ; observing its shapelessness thus collected into a unified image dooms it to a secret sense of inadequacy and unbeing . Whereas the Kristevan subject is shamed by the chaotic body , in Lacan the subject is shamed by the body's ...
... desires ; observing its shapelessness thus collected into a unified image dooms it to a secret sense of inadequacy and unbeing . Whereas the Kristevan subject is shamed by the chaotic body , in Lacan the subject is shamed by the body's ...
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... desire to be concealed and hidden . It generates the wish not to be what one is or has become , which in extreme cases may lead to suicide , but may also motivate reformation and rebirth . A sense of shame is knowledge of what is shame ...
... desire to be concealed and hidden . It generates the wish not to be what one is or has become , which in extreme cases may lead to suicide , but may also motivate reformation and rebirth . A sense of shame is knowledge of what is shame ...
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... dream . With its involuntary desires , its blemishes , wounds and diseases , its excrement , and its eventual death , the gross , steadily decaying body irresistibly offends the sense of self , as Kristeva Introduction 17.
... dream . With its involuntary desires , its blemishes , wounds and diseases , its excrement , and its eventual death , the gross , steadily decaying body irresistibly offends the sense of self , as Kristeva Introduction 17.
Contents
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Shame in the Renaissance | 41 |
Shame in Shakespeare | 74 |
Hamlet | 109 |
Othello | 136 |
King Lear | 173 |
Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus | 208 |
Conclusion | 224 |
Notes | 247 |
References | 255 |
Index | 265 |
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