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Focusing on Shakespeare's Hamlet as foremost a study of grief, Alexander Welsh offers a powerful analysis of its protagonist as the archetype of the modern hero. For over two centuries writers and critics have viewed Hamlet's persona as a fascinating blend of self-consciousness, guilt, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Welsh, Alexander
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > Hamlet.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Influence.
Hamlet > (Legendary character)
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > Anglais & Français.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
Hamlet (Shakespeare, William)
1800-1999
Fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)
Heroes in literature.
Roman > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Hamlet (Personnage légendaire)
Modernisme (Littérature)
Héros dans la littérature.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Fiction
Heroes in literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Hamlet (literaire figuur)
Interpretatie.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Copyright information; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Medieval Hamlet Gains a Family; Chapter Two: Hamlet's Mourning and Revenge Tragedy; Chapter Three: History, as between Goethe's Hamlet and Scott's; Chapter Four: Hamlet's Expectations, Pip's Great Guilt; Chapter Five: Hamlet Decides to Be a Modernist; Index.

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