Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human SoulLexington Books, 17 հնվ, 2001 թ. - 416 էջ The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul, which makes man a rational animal, expresses itself above all in human action. Deadly Thought: 'Hamlet' and the Human Soul traces Hamlet's famous inability to act to his inability to hold together these twin aspects of the soul. Combining careful attention to detail and interpretive breadth, noted scholar Jan H. Blits deftly illustrates how Hamlet collapses life into thought, and moral action into stage acting, and ultimately comes to see his own life as a stage play. Hamlet, the book demonstrates, epitomizes the intellectualism of the Renaissance and the modern age it began, and so becomes tragedy's first self-conscious protagonist, signaling the end of ancient tragedy. Erudite, innovative, and lively, Deadly Thought is a ground-breaking contribution that will appeal to Shakespeare scholars, political theorists, historians of philosophy, literary theorists and anyone interested in a truly fresh interpretation of this classic work. |
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... natural world ( 2.2.295-309 ) .12 Hamlet mentions this view , how- ever , only to say that he no longer holds it . Instead of reason gov- erning the world , he now sees only fortune and inconstancy - only chance and change . In his view ...
... natural world ( 2.2.295-309 ) .12 Hamlet mentions this view , how- ever , only to say that he no longer holds it . Instead of reason gov- erning the world , he now sees only fortune and inconstancy - only chance and change . In his view ...
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... nature , the soul's double aspect also makes him a natural unity or a whole . Because thinking and life have a single cause , man's composite na- ture as a rational animal has a single source . Man is a whole be- cause his nature ...
... nature , the soul's double aspect also makes him a natural unity or a whole . Because thinking and life have a single cause , man's composite na- ture as a rational animal has a single source . Man is a whole be- cause his nature ...
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... natural doubleness . Claudius , having killed his brother , has married his " sometime sister " ( 1.2.8 ) , his brother's widow , making his nephew also his son ( " my cousin , Hamlet , and my son ' [ 1.2.64 ] ) and hence Claudius ...
... natural doubleness . Claudius , having killed his brother , has married his " sometime sister " ( 1.2.8 ) , his brother's widow , making his nephew also his son ( " my cousin , Hamlet , and my son ' [ 1.2.64 ] ) and hence Claudius ...
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... nature " ( 3.2.22 ) . Hamlet , however , collapses the distinction between " the mirror " and " nature , " the imitation and what it imitates . As his mother and uncle destroy natural distinctions within the family by dou- bling them ...
... nature " ( 3.2.22 ) . Hamlet , however , collapses the distinction between " the mirror " and " nature , " the imitation and what it imitates . As his mother and uncle destroy natural distinctions within the family by dou- bling them ...
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... natural ambiguity of “ imitation ” ( mimêsis ) , see Aristotle , Po- etics , 1448b4-19 . 17. 1.2.257 ; 3.1.53 ; 3.4 ... Nature ' in Descartes ' Soul Doctrine , " The Review of Metaphysics 26 ( 1972 ) : 86. See , e.g. , Plato , Republic ...
... natural ambiguity of “ imitation ” ( mimêsis ) , see Aristotle , Po- etics , 1448b4-19 . 17. 1.2.257 ; 3.1.53 ; 3.4 ... Nature ' in Descartes ' Soul Doctrine , " The Review of Metaphysics 26 ( 1972 ) : 86. See , e.g. , Plato , Republic ...
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