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Richard Van Oort - Shakespeare's Big Men: Tragedy and the Problem of Resentment - 9781442650077 - V9781442650077
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Shakespeare's Big Men: Tragedy and the Problem of Resentment

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Description for Shakespeare's Big Men: Tragedy and the Problem of Resentment hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 560.

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. Generative anthropology’s theory of the origins of human society explains the social function of tragedy: to defer our resentment against the “big men” who dominate society by letting us first identify with the tragic protagonist and his resentment, then allowing us to repudiate the protagonist’s resentful rage and achieve theatrical catharsis.

Drawing on this hypothesis, Richard van Oort offers inspired readings of Shakespeare’s plays and their representations of desire, resentment, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442650077
SKU
V9781442650077
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

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

Reviews for Shakespeare's Big Men: Tragedy and the Problem of Resentment
"Shakespeare’s Big Men is an earnest, ambitious, and illuminating book... Van Oort’s close readings, which occupy the better part of the book, are well paced, thorough, and careful... In the end, the greatest strength of the book is that van Oort manages to present a Shakespeare who is both an acute observer of human society and, as an artist, a ... Read more

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