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Shakespeare in Hindsight: Counterfactual Thinking and Shakespearean Tragedy
Amir Khan
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Description for Shakespeare in Hindsight: Counterfactual Thinking and Shakespearean Tragedy
Electronic book text. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA; DSB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
We know William Shakespeare matters but we cannot pinpoint, precisely, why he matters. Lacking reasons why, we do our best to involve him in others, or involve others in him. He has been branded many times over-as Catholic, Protestant, Materialist, Marxist, Psychoanalytic, Feminist, Postcolonial, Popular, Cultural, and, even, Popular-Cultural. In many ways, Shakespeare is overwrought. Why one more 'approach' to Shakespeare? One reason is because whatever these approaches say about tragedy in particular, none of them help us to feel tragedy. Or, rather, they subordinate tragedy to something else-to considerations of, say, class, race, or gender. What these approaches manage ... Read more
We know William Shakespeare matters but we cannot pinpoint, precisely, why he matters. Lacking reasons why, we do our best to involve him in others, or involve others in him. He has been branded many times over-as Catholic, Protestant, Materialist, Marxist, Psychoanalytic, Feminist, Postcolonial, Popular, Cultural, and, even, Popular-Cultural. In many ways, Shakespeare is overwrought. Why one more 'approach' to Shakespeare? One reason is because whatever these approaches say about tragedy in particular, none of them help us to feel tragedy. Or, rather, they subordinate tragedy to something else-to considerations of, say, class, race, or gender. What these approaches manage ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474426046
SKU
V9781474426046
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About Amir Khan
Amir Khan is an Assistant Professor of English at the Liaoning Normal University-Missouri State University (LNU-MSU) College of International Business in Dalian, China.
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