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Shakespeare's big men : tragedy and the problem of resentment
- Title
- Shakespeare's big men : tragedy and the problem of resentment / Richard van Oort.
- Author
- Van Oort, Richard
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 255 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Shakespeare's Big Men examines five Shakespearean tragedies - Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus - through the lens of generative anthropology and the insights of its founder, Eric Gans. Generative anthropology's theory of the origins of human society explains the social function of tragedy: to defer our resentment against the "big men" who dominate society by letting us first identify with the tragic protagonist and his resentment, then allowing us to repudiate the protagonist's resentful rage and achieve theatrical catharsis. Drawing on this hypothesis, Richard van Oort offers inspired readings of Shakespeare's plays and their representations of desire, resentment, guilt, and evil. His analysis revives the universal spirit in Shakespearean criticism, illustrating how the plays can serve as a way to understand the ethical dilemma of resentment and discover within ourselves the nature of the human experience"--
- Alternative Title
- Big men
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-246) and index.
- Contents
- Why Shakespeare and generative anthropology? -- The originary hypothesis: hierarchy, resentment, and tragedy -- Brutus's neoclassical irony -- Hamlet's filthy imagination -- Iago, our co-conspirator -- Macbeth unseamed -- Coriolanus's impotence -- Coda: René Giard's Shakespeare.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-10405
- ISBN
- 9781442650077
- 1442650079
- OCLC
- 922463044
- Author
- Van Oort, Richard, author.
- Title
- Shakespeare's big men : tragedy and the problem of resentment / Richard van Oort.
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-246) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-10405