Comic Women, Tragic Men: A Study of Gender and Genre in ShakespeareStanford University Press, 1.06.1982 г. - 212 страници This book proceeds from the assumption that Shakespeare, so often perceived as the one writer who appears to have transcended the limits of gender, inevitably writes from the perspective of his own gender. From this perspective, whatever represents the Self is necessarily male; and the Other, which challenges the Self, is female. The author's approach gives us a fresh understanding of both Shakespeare's characters and the structure of the plays. The author defines genre in terms of the nature of the challenge offered by the Other to the Self. Using specific plays and characters of Shakespeare, the author shows how in tragedy the Other betrays or appears to betray the Self; in comedy the Other evades the social hierarchies dominated by versions of the male Self; in romance the Other comes and goes, leaving the Self bereft when she is gone and astounding him with happiness when she reappears. History is defined as a genre in which the masculine heroes confront no challenge from the Other but only from each other, from other versions of the Self. The book consists of a long theoretical introduction followed by chapters on comedy, history, and some individual plays: Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest. |
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... misogyny of the very characters we feel closest to . Lear , Hamlet , Antony , and Othello all turn on women at some point or other in hatred and disgust . Leslie Fiedler goes so far as to identify the plays themselves with their heroes ...
... misogyny of the very characters we feel closest to . Lear , Hamlet , Antony , and Othello all turn on women at some point or other in hatred and disgust . Leslie Fiedler goes so far as to identify the plays themselves with their heroes ...
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... misogyny in the tragedies is surely a sign that Shakespeare is dealing with gender relations here from a masculine point of view ; and to some plays , like The Tempest , the feminine perspective is simply irrelevant . In order to make ...
... misogyny in the tragedies is surely a sign that Shakespeare is dealing with gender relations here from a masculine point of view ; and to some plays , like The Tempest , the feminine perspective is simply irrelevant . In order to make ...
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... misogyny , and " the comic resolution of male with female , idealism with realism , wit with sex is never achieved . " 16 Neely's article emphasizes the play's sym- pathy with the feminine , its criticism of the " isolated , rigid ...
... misogyny , and " the comic resolution of male with female , idealism with realism , wit with sex is never achieved . " 16 Neely's article emphasizes the play's sym- pathy with the feminine , its criticism of the " isolated , rigid ...
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... misogynist one . Leslie Fiedler , for instance , makes extensive use of the idea in The Stranger in Shakespeare . Fiedler defines the Other ( or stranger ) as the creature of an uncon- scious psychological process : Men . . . seem ...
... misogynist one . Leslie Fiedler , for instance , makes extensive use of the idea in The Stranger in Shakespeare . Fiedler defines the Other ( or stranger ) as the creature of an uncon- scious psychological process : Men . . . seem ...
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... misogyny break out . In these four works the play itself makes the point that projection onto women is a function of inco- herence within the male Self . It is only when his sense of his own identity is threatened that the hero projects ...
... misogyny break out . In these four works the play itself makes the point that projection onto women is a function of inco- herence within the male Self . It is only when his sense of his own identity is threatened that the hero projects ...
Съдържание
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TWO Antony and Cleopatra | 45 |
THREE Hamlet | 71 |
FOUR Macbeth and Coriolanus | 91 |
FIVE The Comic Heroine and the Avoidance | 109 |
Toward Tragedy | 135 |
The Tempest | 169 |
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Comic Women, Tragic Men: A Study of Gender and Genre in Shakespeare Linda Bamber Ограничен достъп - 1982 |
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