Shakespearean arrivals : the birth of character / Nicholas Luke.
Luke, Nicholas, 1982-| Call Number | 822.3/3 |
| Author | Luke, Nicholas, 1982- author. |
| Title | Shakespearean arrivals : the birth of character / Nicholas Luke. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (vi, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018). |
| Contents | Thinking arrivals: Rupture, event, subject -- The subject of love in Romeo and Juliet -- Love's late arrival: wonder and terror in Othello's "high-wrought flood" -- The ghostly event(s) of Hamlet -- Macbeth: the arrival of evil -- The Cordelia event: seizing the vanished in King Lear. |
| Summary | In this distinctive study, Nicholas Luke explores the abiding power of Shakespeare's tragedies by suggesting an innovative new model of his character creation. Rather than treating characters as presupposed beings, Luke shows how they arrive as something more than functional dramatis personae - how they come to life as 'subjects' - through Shakespeare's orchestration of transformational dramatic events. Moving beyond dominant critical modes, Luke combines compelling close readings of Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear with an accessible analysis of thinkers such as Badiou, Žižek, Bergson, Whitehead and Latour, and the 'adventist' Christian tradition flowing from Saint Paul through Luther to Kierkegard. Representing a significant intervention into the way we encounter Shakespeare's tragic figures, the book argues for a subjectivity which is not singular or abiding, but perilous and leaping. |
| Subject | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Characters. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Tragedies. Characters and characteristics in literature. |
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| Summary | In this distinctive study, Nicholas Luke explores the abiding power of Shakespeare's tragedies by suggesting an innovative new model of his character creation. Rather than treating characters as presupposed beings, Luke shows how they arrive as something more than functional dramatis personae - how they come to life as 'subjects' - through Shakespeare's orchestration of transformational dramatic events. Moving beyond dominant critical modes, Luke combines compelling close readings of Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear with an accessible analysis of thinkers such as Badiou, Žižek, Bergson, Whitehead and Latour, and the 'adventist' Christian tradition flowing from Saint Paul through Luther to Kierkegard. Representing a significant intervention into the way we encounter Shakespeare's tragic figures, the book argues for a subjectivity which is not singular or abiding, but perilous and leaping. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018). |
| Contents | Thinking arrivals: Rupture, event, subject -- The subject of love in Romeo and Juliet -- Love's late arrival: wonder and terror in Othello's "high-wrought flood" -- The ghostly event(s) of Hamlet -- Macbeth: the arrival of evil -- The Cordelia event: seizing the vanished in King Lear. |
| Subject | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Characters. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Tragedies. Characters and characteristics in literature. |
| Multimedia |