Evolving Hamlet
Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection
Seiten
2011
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-11168-4 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-11168-4 (ISBN)
Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience can help organize the biological functions of our brains into adaptive social networks.
ANGUS FLETCHER Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at UCLA, USA.
Introduction: The Descent of Ethics Faustus, Macbeth , and The Riddle of Tomorrow Partial Belief in Julius Caesar and Hamlet Othello and the Subject of Ocular Proof The Indian Emperor and the Reason of New World Conflict Cartesian Pity and the New Shakespeare King Lear and the Endurance of Tragedy The Progress of Ethics
Reihe/Serie | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance |
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Zusatzinfo | XVI, 192 p. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-230-11168-8 / 0230111688 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-230-11168-4 / 9780230111684 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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