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Shakespeare's big men : tragedy and the problem of resentment /

Shakespeare's Big Men examines five Shakespearean tragedies--Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus--through the lens of generative anthropology and the insights of its founder, Eric Gans. Generative anthropology's theory of the origins of human society explains the social...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Van Oort, Richard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1
  • Why Shakespeare and Generative Anthropology?
  • Chapter 2
  • The Originary Hypothesis: Hierarchy, Resentment, and Tragedy
  • Chapter 3
  • Brutus's Neoclassical Irony
  • Chapter 4
  • Hamlet's Filthy Imagination
  • Chapter 5
  • Iago Our Co-Conspirator Chapter 6
  • Macbeth Unseamed
  • Chapter 7
  • Coriolanus's Impotence
  • Chapter 8
  • Coda: Rene Girard's Shakespeare.