Research Catalog

Title

Limited Shakespeare : the reason of finitude / Julián Jiménez Heffernan.

Author

Jiménez Heffernan, Julián

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
• ©2019

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

ix, 250 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Shakespeare's poetic-dramatic worlds are inescapably limited. There is always, in his poems and plays, a force (a contingent drive, a pre-textual undertow, a rational-critical momentum, an ironic stance, the deflections of error) coercing plot and meaning to their end. By examining the work of limits in the sonnets and in five of his plays, this book seeks not only to highlight the poet's steadfast commitment to critical rationality. It also aims to plead a case of hermeneutic continence. Present-day appraisals of Shakespeare's world-making and meaning-projecting potential are often overruled by a neo-romantic and phenomenological celebration of plenty. This pre-critical tendency unwittingly obtains epistemic legitimation from philosophical quarters inspired by Alain Badiou's derisive rejection of 'the pathos of finitude'. But finitude is much more than a modish, neo-existentialist, watchword. It is what is left of ontology when reason is done. And cool reason was already at work before Kant. In accounting for the way in which Shakespeare places limits to life (Romeo and Juliet), to experience (The Tempest), to love (the Sonnets), to time (Macbeth), to the world (Hamlet) and to knowledge (Othello), Limited Shakespeare: The Reason of Finitude aims to underscore the deeply mediated dimension of Shakespearean experience, always over-determined by the twin forces of contingency and textual determinism, and his meta-rational and virtually ironic taste for irrational, accidental, and error-driven limits (bonds, bounds, deaths)"--

Series Statement

Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 37

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 37.

Subjects

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Finite, The, in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
• 1500-1700

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-239) and index.

Contents

The limits of love : Shakespeare and the siren -- The limits of life : Romeo's earliness -- The limits of the world : Hamlet insolvent -- The limits of knowledge : more or less than truth in Othello -- The limits of time : the poverty of historicism in Macbeth -- The limits of experience : limited possibility in The tempest.

Call Number

JFE 19-9944

ISBN

• 9780367026776
• 0367026775

LCCN

2019005926

OCLC

1089257254

Author

Jiménez Heffernan, Julián, author.

Title

Limited Shakespeare : the reason of finitude / Julián Jiménez Heffernan.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 37

Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 37.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-239) and index.

Chronological Term

1500-1700

Other Form:

Online version: Jiménez Heffernan, Julián, author. Limited Shakespeare New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 9780429398384 (DLC) 2019010740

Research Call Number

JFE 19-9944