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The Shattering of the self : violence, subjectivity, and early modern texts / Cynthia Marshall.
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Ebscohost Ebooks University Press Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marshall, Cynthia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
- English drama (Tragedy).
- Subjectivity in literature.
- Renaissance--England.
- Renaissance.
- Violence in literature.
- Self in literature.
- Catharsis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Timely in its offering of an account that is both historically and psychoanalytically informed, The Shattering of the Self argues for a renewed attention to the place of fantasy in this literature and will be of interest to scholars working in Renaissance and early modern studies, literary theory, gender studies, and film theory.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One Violence, Subjectivity, and Paradoxes of Pleasure
- Chapter Two " To Speak of Love" in the Language of Petrarchanism
- Chapter Three Foxe and the Jouissance of Martyrology
- Chapter Four The Pornographic Economy of Titus Andronicus
- Chapter Five Form, Characters, Viewers, and Ford's The Broken Heart
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-7643-5
- OCLC:
- 51615942
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