Shakespeare and the Mismeasure of Renaissance Man /

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"With special attention to the Sonnets, Measure for Measure, Merchant of Venice, Othello, King Lear, and Hamlet, Paula Blank argues that Shakespeare, in his experiments with measurement, demonstrates the incommensurability of the aims and operations of quantification with human experience."...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Blank, Paula, 1959-2016 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Shakespeare, William.
Shakespeare, William > Philosophie und Weltanschauung.
Shakespeare, William > Motiv > Grösse (Messung)
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Messung.
Anthropometrie.
Measurement in literature.
Anthropometry in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
Mesure dans la litterature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Renaissance art of measurement
  • Poetic numbers and Shakespeare's "lines of life"
  • Pounds of flesh : race relations in the Venice plays
  • Shakespeare's social arithmetics : checking the math of King Lear
  • The Lesbian rule of Measure for measure
  • How smart is Hamlet? : Shakespeare and Renaissance "intelligence testing."

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