Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Abdulhamit Arvas Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 100 ISBN: 9783846587188
Описание
This book demonstrates how contemporary theories of subjectivity have their roots in early modern philosophical and literary arguments, particularly in Shakespeare’s “distracted Globe.” Abdulhamit Arvas discusses Shakespeare’s Hamlet in relation to the modernist idea of the autonomous self and the postmodernist idea of the decentered subjectivities to explore the notion of the self in early modern thought and to suggest how Hamlet’s preoccupation with philosophical and rhetorical modes of self-display can be seen as anticipating certain postmodern theories. This work offers an interpretation for Hamlet’s subjectivity from a postmodernist point of view which asserts that the play examines the very discursive formulation of the self and uncovers the fragility of the idea itself. In conjunction with these arguments, the book includes a close analysis of Hamlet’s postmodern film adaptations—of Coronado and Almereyda versions in particular— to elucidate the early modern- postmodern...
