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ISBN:
9789004490796
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9789042010185
Serie:
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 72
Inhalt:
Written using critical theory, especially by Walter Benjamin, Blanchot and Derrida, Allegory and the Work of Melancholy: The Late Medieval and Shakespeare reads medieval and early modern texts, exploring allegory within texts, allegorical readings of texts, and melancholy in texts. Authors studied are Langland and Chaucer, Hoccleve, on his madness, Lydgate and Henryson. Shakespeare's first tetralogy, the three parts of Henry VI and Richard III conclude this investigation of death, mourning, madness and of complaint. Benjamin's writings on allegory inspire this linking, which also considers Dürer, Baldung and Holbein and the dance of the dead motifs. The study sees subjectivity created as obsessional, paranoid, and links melancholia, madness and allegorical creation, where parts of the subject are split off from each other, and speak as wholes. Allegory and melancholy are two modes - a state of writing and a state of being - where the subject fragments or disappears. These texts are aware of the power of death within writing, which makes them, fascinating. The book will appeal to readers of literature from the medieval to the Baroque, and to those interested in critical theory, and histories of visual culture
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Benjamin's Trauerspiel -- Chapter 1: Triumphs of Allegory: Piers Plowman -- Chapter 2: The Knight Sets Forth: Chaucer, Chrétien and Dürer -- Chapter 3: Allegory and the Madness of the Text: Hoccleve's Complaint -- Chapter 4: Collecting Princes: Reading Lydgate -- Chapter 5: The Testament of Cresseid : Reading Henryson with Baldung -- Chapter 6: Signs of the Apocalypse: Shakespeare's Henry VI -- Conclusion: Richard III, Mourning and Memory -- Bibliography -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Allegory and the Work of Melancholy : The Late Medieval and Shakespeare Leiden : BRILL, 2004 ISBN 9789042010185
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1163/9789004490796
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