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Volpone's Bastards : Theorising Jonson's City Comedy /

Brings Ben Jonson to the twenty-first century by reading Volpone through psychoanalysis, poststructuralism and MarxismThrough studying Volpone's three bastard children ̶ the dwarf, the androgyne and the eunuch ̶ from the theoretical argument of Freud, Lacan, Derrida and Foucault, this book disc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hui, Isaac (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1 Introduction: Jonson and Comedy
  • Chapter 2 'For pleasing imitation of greater men's action': Nano the Anamorphic Ape
  • Chapter 3 'Think me cold, frozen, and impotent, and so report me?': Volpone and His 'Castrone' Complex
  • Chapter 4 'The case appears too liquid': The Two Sides of Androgyno
  • Chapter 5 'I fear I shall begin to grow in love with my dear self': The Parasite and His 'Mirror Stage'
  • Chapter 6 Jonson's Comedy of Bastardy
  • Chapter 7 Conclusion: 'Fools, they are the only nation': Rereading the Interlude and Beyond
  • Bibliography
  • Index