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"This book offers a new approach to the discussion of English Renaissance literary subjectivity. Dissatisfied with much New Historicist and Cultural Materialist criticism, it attempts to trace the history of the controversies of self. William Hazlitt emerges as a pioneering figure in a tradition of literary criticism which this book tries to advance. Drawing on the personal construct theory of George A. Kelly, and on the moral theory of Alasdair MacIntyre, the textual ways are traced by which 'That within' Hamlet is constructed. In an argument that challenges some of the founding propositions of New Historicist and Cultural Materialist practice, the Prince is seen to have a self-constituting, as opposed to a self-fashioning, sense of self. This sense of self is neither essentialist nor transhistorical; using the work of Charles Taylor, the play is seen to be exploring a Montaignesque, as opposed to Cartesian, notion of subjectivity. The controversies of self are, in fact, an issue within Shakespeare's play; and if the notion of Folio and Quarto Princes is allowed, it may even be an issue within the play. Hamlet debates our debate."--BOOK JACKET.
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Influence, Knowledge, Psychology, Psychology in literature, Self in literature, Subjectivity in literature, Tragedy, Hamlet (Legendary character), Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, hamlet, Montaigne, michel de, 1533-1592, Knowledge and learning, Hamlet, prince of Denmarke (Shakespeare), ZelfShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Shakespeare's Hamlet and the controversies of self
2000, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
in English
0198185049 9780198185048
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-251) and index.
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