Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama: Subjectivity, Discourse and t...
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- English
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- British & Irish
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- New
- ISBN-10
- 0333628993
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Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama: Subjectivity, Discourse and the Stage
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ISBN: 0333628993
Author: Hillman, R.
Condition: New
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.
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