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Shakespeare's entrails : belief, scepticism and the interior of the body / David Hillman.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hillman, David (David A.)
- Series:
- Palgrave Shakespeare studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge and learning--Anatomy.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Anatomy.
- Human body in literature.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Troilus and Cressida.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Winter's tale.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Summary:
- David Hillman's new book focuses on a vital area of contemporary Renaissance scholarship - that of Early Modern notions of embodiment and selfhood. The book imagines the Shakespearean corpus from the inside out: it explores the preoccupation with the body's interior spaces in several of Shakespeare's plays, focussing on how these plays address questions of knowledge and acknowledgement: on the ways characters imagine being within the body of the other, or having one's own body inhabited or possessed by another.
- Contents:
- 1 Visceral Knowledge 1
- Early modern bodies 3
- Psychoanalytic enclosures 11
- A brief history of entrails 15
- Topographies of doubt and belief 23
- Dissecting anatomy 32
- Religious entrails 36
- Staging guts 40
- Shakespeare's entrails 47
- Descartes and the scene of scepticism 54
- 2 The Gastric Epic: Troilus and Cressida 59
- The Matter of Troy 59
- The satirist and the cannibal 66
- Cannibalism and silence 75
- 3 The Inward Man: Hamlet 81
- The closing of the father 87
- The eating of the father 95
- Hamlet's 'Nerosis' 102
- Aporia 109
- 4 The Body Possessed: King Lear 119
- Exorcisms 122
- Inhabitations 129
- Possessions 136
- Dispossessions 144
- 5 No Barricado for a Belly: The Winter's Tale 153
- 'No bourn' 153
- 'In the between' 164.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403942676
- 9781403942678
- OCLC:
- 70259092
- Online:
- Publisher description
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