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Self-speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama
Richard Hillman
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Hardback. This text documents the changing representation of subjectivity in medieval and early modern English drama by intertextually exploring discourses of "self-speaking", including soliloquy. Pre-modern ideas about language are combined with models of subject formation, especially that of Lacan. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; CFA; DSBB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 556.
This book documents the changing representation of subjectivity in Medieval and Early Modern English drama by intertextually exploring discourses of 'self-speaking', including soliloquy. Pre-modern ideas about language are combined with recent models of subject formation, especially Lacan's, to theorize and analyze the stage 'self' as a variable linguistic construct. Both the approach itself and the conclusions it generates significantly diverge from the standard New Historicist/Cultural Materialist narrative of subjectivity. Plays range from the Corpus Christi pageants to the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, with Shakespeare a recurrent focus and Hamlet, inevitably, the pivotal text.
This book documents the changing representation of subjectivity in Medieval and Early Modern English drama by intertextually exploring discourses of 'self-speaking', including soliloquy. Pre-modern ideas about language are combined with recent models of subject formation, especially Lacan's, to theorize and analyze the stage 'self' as a variable linguistic construct. Both the approach itself and the conclusions it generates significantly diverge from the standard New Historicist/Cultural Materialist narrative of subjectivity. Plays range from the Corpus Christi pageants to the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, with Shakespeare a recurrent focus and Hamlet, inevitably, the pivotal text.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
319
Condition
New
Number of Pages
309
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333628997
SKU
V9780333628997
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About Richard Hillman
Richard Hillman
Reviews for Self-speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama
'...this book challenges some of the paradigms of new historicist and cultural materialist critics as it builds a persuasive argument stressing continuities between subjectivities on medieval and early modern stages...Especially valuable for the innovative ways in which it traverses the ground between the medieval and early modern periods, this challenging work will be of interest to literary critics, cultural critics, ... Read more