Robert Ellrodt

Montaigne and Shakespeare

The emergence of modern self-consciousness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is not a mere study of Shakespeare's debt to Montaigne. It traces the evolution of self-consciousness in literary, philosophical and religious writings from Antiquity to the Renaissance and demonstrates that its early modern forms first appeared in the Essays and in Shakespearean drama. -- .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9781526116857
• ISBN-10: 1526116855
• Artikelnr.: 47662716

Autorenporträt

Robert Ellrodt was Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle

Inhaltsangabe

1. New forms of self-consciousness in Montaigne 2. The progress of
subjectivity from Antiquity to Montaigne 3. Shakespeare and the new aspects
of subjectivity 4. Complexity and coherence of the Shakespearean characters
5. Subjective Time in Montaigne and Shakespeare 6. Scepticism and stable
humanistic values Epilogue: The wisdom of Montaigne and Shakespeare
Bibliography Index