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Stay, Illusion! : the Hamlet doctrine / Simon Critchley & Jamieson Webster.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2807 .C74 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Critchley, Simon, 1960- author.
- Webster, Jamieson, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Influence.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Hamlet (Legendary character).
- Hamlet.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 269 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2013]
- Summary:
- The figure of Hamlet haunts our culture like the Ghost haunts him. Critchley and Webster consider the political context and stakes of Shakespeare's play, its relation to religion, the movement of desire, and the incapacity to love.
- Contents:
- Praise be rashness
- The gap between thought and action
- The mouse-trap
- Let be
- Bunghole
- The Gorgiastic paradox of theater
- Ass, ho, hum
- In nothing must
- By indirections find directions out : Carl Schmitt's Hamletization
- This globe of spies
- He is not a nice guy : Hamlet as prince and political threat
- Is Hamlet a tragedy or a Trauerspiel?
- The mute rock of reality
- Walter Benjamin's slothful, pensive melancholy
- Is Hamlet a Christian tragedy?
- Do it, England
- Germany is Hamlet, and Hamlet is Germany
- A fault to heaven
- Unbearable contingency : Hegel's Hamlet
- Hegel likes a happy ending
- Hamlet is a lost man
- Hamletizing psychoanalysis
- Rebecca, take off your gown : Freud and Fliess
- I have bad dreams
- Psychoanalysts eat their young
- Get thee to a nursery
- Hamlet's mourning and melancholia
- A happiness that often madness hits on
- At every moment absolutely stupefied : Lacan bites the carpet
- That is Laertes, this is Hamlet
- The image of my cause I see : Hamlet and the mirror
- Ophelia, or, The sexual life of plants
- The moneying of love
- Thou common whore and visible God
- Gertrude, a gaping cunt
- Mother, Mother, Mother
- Step between her and her fighting soul
- Who calls on Hamlet?
- Nietzsche contra Nietzsche
- Spectatorial distance
- Lethargy and disgust
- Who asked you to swallow men like oysters, Prince Hamlet?
- Through the ghost of the unquiet father, the image of the unliving son looks forth
- I want to be a woman
- Absolutely-too-much
- - O, O, O, O. Dies
- I will gain nothing but my shame
- The most monstrous contradiction of love.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780307907615 :
- 0307907619
- OCLC:
- 813540045
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