Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human SoulLexington Books, 2001 M01 17 - 416 páginas The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul, which makes man a rational animal, expresses itself above all in human action. Deadly Thought: 'Hamlet' and the Human Soul traces Hamlet's famous inability to act to his inability to hold together these twin aspects of the soul. Combining careful attention to detail and interpretive breadth, noted scholar Jan H. Blits deftly illustrates how Hamlet collapses life into thought, and moral action into stage acting, and ultimately comes to see his own life as a stage play. Hamlet, the book demonstrates, epitomizes the intellectualism of the Renaissance and the modern age it began, and so becomes tragedy's first self-conscious protagonist, signaling the end of ancient tragedy. Erudite, innovative, and lively, Deadly Thought is a ground-breaking contribution that will appeal to Shakespeare scholars, political theorists, historians of philosophy, literary theorists and anyone interested in a truly fresh interpretation of this classic work. |
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... action . Such analysis will include works on political thought and literature , statesmanship , American political thought , and contemporary political theory . The editors also anticipate and welcome examinations of the place of ...
... action . Such analysis will include works on political thought and literature , statesmanship , American political thought , and contemporary political theory . The editors also anticipate and welcome examinations of the place of ...
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... action ; the other , humility , forgiveness , lowliness , and patience . Accord- ing to this view , while Hamlet tries to combine these two morali- ties , Shakespeare shows how they are in a fundamental tension with each other and that ...
... action ; the other , humility , forgiveness , lowliness , and patience . Accord- ing to this view , while Hamlet tries to combine these two morali- ties , Shakespeare shows how they are in a fundamental tension with each other and that ...
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... action . In opposition to the scholastics , who granted the necessity of God's grace but also held that man can contribute something to salvation by his own efforts , Luther argues that whatever good man does is wholly the work of grace ...
... action . In opposition to the scholastics , who granted the necessity of God's grace but also held that man can contribute something to salvation by his own efforts , Luther argues that whatever good man does is wholly the work of grace ...
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... action , Hamlet chooses acting . If outward action dis- appears into inward virtue , it also both disappears into and reap- pears out of stage - acting . Hamlet turns stage - acting into action ( " The play's the thing / Wherein I'll ...
... action , Hamlet chooses acting . If outward action dis- appears into inward virtue , it also both disappears into and reap- pears out of stage - acting . Hamlet turns stage - acting into action ( " The play's the thing / Wherein I'll ...
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... action , the nobles , again , listen in silence ( 4.3.1-11 ; cf. 4.1.38-40 ) . Of the three sorts of young Danish noble- men we see , one group ( Rosencrantz , Guildenstern , and Osric ) seeks to advance by favor of the king ; another ...
... action , the nobles , again , listen in silence ( 4.3.1-11 ; cf. 4.1.38-40 ) . Of the three sorts of young Danish noble- men we see , one group ( Rosencrantz , Guildenstern , and Osric ) seeks to advance by favor of the king ; another ...
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