Research Catalog
The improbability of Othello : rhetorical anthropology and shakespearean selfhood
- Title
- The improbability of Othello : rhetorical anthropology and shakespearean selfhood / Joel B. Altman.
- Author
- Altman, Joel B.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 10-1826 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 450 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue. 'As if for surety': the problematics of shakespearean probability -- Toward a rhetorical genealogy of Othello -- 'My parts, my title, and my perfect soul': ingenuity, apodeixis, and the origins of rhetorical anthropology -- 'Against my estimation': ciceronian decorum, stoic constancy, and the production of ethos -- The logic of Renaissance rhetoric -- 'Apt and true': speech, world, and thought in Shakespeare's humanist dialectic -- 'Yonder's foul murders done': place, predicament, and grammatical space on Cyprus -- Willful words, Christian anxieties, and shakespearean dramaturgy -- 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus': will, habit, and the discourse of res -- 'Preposterous conclusions': eros, enargeia, and composition in Othello -- 'Prophetic fury': the language of theatrical potentiality and the economy of shakespearean reception -- Tropings of the self in Shakespeare's scripts -- 'I am not what I am': Shakespeare's scripted subject -- 'Nobody. I myself': discovering what passes show -- Performing the improbable other on Shakespeare's stage -- 'Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago': ligatures of self and stranger -- 'It is not words that shakes me thus': Burbage, as if Othello -- Epilogue. 'Make not impossible/that which but seems unlike': the twilight of probability and the dawn of shakespearean romance.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-1826
- ISBN
- 9780226016108 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226016102 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009021507
- OCLC
- YBP 2009021507
- Author
- Altman, Joel B.
- Title
- The improbability of Othello : rhetorical anthropology and shakespearean selfhood / Joel B. Altman.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-1826