Shame in ShakespeareRoutledge, 2012 M09 10 - 288 páginas 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. |
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... reason , a transfer of emphasis from ' text ' towards ' context ' has increasingly been the concern of critics and scholars since World War II : a tendency that has perhaps reached its climax in more recent movements such as new ...
... reason the subject's relation with itself has broken down . The cruelty of shaming is that it can interfere with the subject's sense of self ; if it does not , one is able to brazen it out . This is a subsidiary form of shame where one ...
... reason for it , gods or angels ( Huarte 1594 : 266 ; Emad 1972 : 369 ) . Shame defines our place in the universe : in Erich Heller's phrase it is ' a sine qua non of humanity ' ( quoted in Schneider 1992 : xvii ) . Kristeva describes ...
... reason to be , inherently ashamed of themselves ; whereas with the advent of Christianity shame is absorbed within , to the extent that human flesh itself becomes intrinsically shameful . Shame here is also severed from reformation or ...
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Contenido
1 | |
24 | |
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 |