Lacan, Foucault, and the Malleable Subject in Early Modern English Utopian Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lacan, Foucault, and the Malleable Subject in Early Modern English Utopian Literature write by Dan Mills. This book was released on 2020-02-13. Lacan, Foucault, and the Malleable Subject in Early Modern English Utopian Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theoretically informed scholarship on early modern English utopian literature has largely focused on Marxist interpretation of these texts in an attempt to characterize them as proto- Marxist. The present volume instead focuses on subjectivity in early modern English utopian writing by using these texts as case studies to explore intersections of the thought of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault. Both Lacan and Foucault moved back and forth between structuralist and post-structuralist intellectual trends and ultimately both defy strict categorization into either camp. Although numerous studies have appeared that compare Lacan’s and Foucault’s thought, there have been relatively few applications of their thought together onto literature. By applying the thought of both theorists, who were not literary critics, to readings of early modern English utopian literature, this study will, on the one hand, describe the formation of utopian subjectivity that is both psychoanalytically (Oedipal and pre-Oedipal) and socially constructed, and, on the other hand, demonstrate new ways in which the thought of Lacan and Foucault inform and complement each other when applied to literary texts. The utopian subject is a malleable subject, a subject whose linguistic, psychoanalytical subjectivity determines the extent to which environmental and social factors manifest in an identity that moves among Lacan’s Symbolic, Imaginary, and Real.
Lacan, Foucault, and the Malleable Subject in Early Modern English Utopian Literature
Lacan, Foucault, and the Malleable Subject in Early Modern English Utopian Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lacan, Foucault, and the Malleable Subject in Early Modern English Utopian Literature write by Dan Mills. This book was released on 2021-12-13. Lacan, Foucault, and the Malleable Subject in Early Modern English Utopian Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By applying the thought of both Lacan and Foucault, this study describes the formation of constructed utopian subjectivity and demonstrate new ways in which the thought of Lacan and Foucault inform and complement each other when applied to literary texts.
Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy
Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy write by Iman Sheeha. This book was released on 2020-05-14. Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy considerably advances existing scholarship on the institution of service in early modern culture and as represented on the early modern stage. With its focus on the homes of the middling sorts, to whom the protagonists of domestic tragedy belong, the book expands our understanding of employer-servant relationships beyond elite and aristocratic circles, the focus of previous studies. Drawing on early modern advice literature, household guides, domestic manuals, sermons, treatises, proverbs, mothers’ legacies, funeral sermons, diaries, letters, and jest books as well as making use of the recent findings by social and cultural historians of early modern England, the book examines the consequences of disordered domesticity for the master-servant relationship. This study nuances the picture of domestic servants constructed by both early modern moralists and modern scholarship, arguing against overarching, reductive narratives. The book argues that the experience of household service as depicted in domestic tragedy, like in real life, was complex and varied and that there was no typical experience of service.
From Narcissism to Nihilism
From Narcissism to Nihilism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Narcissism to Nihilism write by Anthony Archdeacon. This book was released on 2021-12-30. From Narcissism to Nihilism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores how the myth of Narcissus, which is at once about self-love and self-destruction, desire and death, beauty and pain, became an ambivalent symbol of humanistic endeavour, and articulated the conflicts of early modern authorship. In early modern literature, there were expressions of humanistic self-congratulation that sometimes verged on narcissism, and at the same time expressions of self-doubt and anxiety that verged on nihilism. The themes of self-love and self-negation had a long history in western thought, and this book shows how the medieval treatments of the themes developed into something distinctive in the sixteenth century. The two themes, either individually or combined, encompass such topics as poverty, unrequited love, transgressive sexuality, sexual violence, suicidality, self-worth, authorship, religious penitence, martyrdom, courtly ambition and tyranny. Archdeacon uses over 100 texts from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to show how the early modern writer existed in a culture of contrary forces pulling towards either self-affirmation or self-erasure. Writers attempted to negotiate between the polarised extremes of self-love and self-negation, realising that they are fundamental to how we respond to each other, our selves and the world.
John Dryden and His Readers: 1700
John Dryden and His Readers: 1700 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John Dryden and His Readers: 1700 write by Winifred Ernst. This book was released on 2019-12-09. John Dryden and His Readers: 1700 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dryden at the end of his life was admired, perhaps even beloved, by many in England, and his greatest skill over his long career—his controlled detachment—uniquely positioned him to write of both history and politics in 1700. His narrative poetry was popular among Whigs and Tories, women and men, Ancients and Moderns, and his imitations suggest historical connections between the War of the Roses, the Civil War, and the Revolution of 1688. All of these events combined easily in the minds of Dryden’s contemporaries, and his fables, fraught with conflicted loyalties and family strife not unlike a nation divided, may have caught and compelled his readers in a way that was different from other miscellanies: Dryden may have articulated in beautiful verse the emotions of many in the midst of enormous historical change. Fables is a pivotal cultural text urging national unity through its embrace of competing voices.
