Richard van Oort

Shakespeare's Big Men

Tragedy and the Problem of Resentment

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeare’s Big Men examines five Shakespearean tragedies – Julius Caesar , Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus – through the lens of generative anthropology and the insights of its founder, Eric Gans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781442650077
• ISBN-10: 1442650079
• Artikelnr.: 43856800

Autorenporträt

Richard van Oort is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1
Why Shakespeare and Generative Anthropology? Chapter 2
The Originary Hypothesis: Hierarchy, Resentment, and Tragedy Chapter 3
Brutus’s Neoclassical Irony Chapter 4
Hamlet’s Filthy Imagination Chapter 5
Iago Our Co
Conspirator Chapter 6
Macbeth Unseamed Chapter 7
Coriolanus’s Impotence Chapter 8
Coda: René Girard’s Shakespeare