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The Resource Limited Shakespeare : the reason of finitude, Julián Jiménez Heffernan, (electronic resource)

Limited Shakespeare : the reason of finitude, Julián Jiménez Heffernan, (electronic resource)

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"Shakespeare's poetic-dramatic worlds are inescapably limited. There is always, in his poems and plays, a force (a contingent drive, a pre-textual undertow, a rational-critical momentum, an ironic stance, the deflections of error) coercing plot and meaning to their end. By examining the work of limits in the sonnets and in five of his plays, this book seeks not only to highlight the poet's steadfast commitment to critical rationality. It also aims to plead a case of hermeneutic continence. Present-day appraisals of Shakespeare's world-making and meaning-projecting potential are often overruled by a neo-romantic and phenomenological celebration of plenty. This pre-critical tendency unwittingly obtains epistemic legitimation from philosophical quarters inspired by Alain Badiou's derisive rejection of 'the pathos of finitude'. But finitude is much more than a modish, neo-existentialist, watchword. It is what is left of ontology when reason is done. And cool reason was already at work before Kant. In accounting for the way in which Shakespeare places limits to life (Romeo and Juliet), to experience (The Tempest), to love (the Sonnets), to time (Macbeth), to the world (Hamlet) and to knowledge (Othello), Limited Shakespeare: The Reason of Finitude aims to underscore the deeply mediated dimension of Shakespearean experience, always over-determined by the twin forces of contingency and textual determinism, and his meta-rational and virtually ironic taste for irrational, accidental, and error-driven limits (bonds, bounds, deaths)"--
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eng
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Limited Shakespeare : the reason of finitude
Title
Limited Shakespeare
Title remainder
the reason of finitude
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Julián Jiménez Heffernan
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"Shakespeare's poetic-dramatic worlds are inescapably limited. There is always, in his poems and plays, a force (a contingent drive, a pre-textual undertow, a rational-critical momentum, an ironic stance, the deflections of error) coercing plot and meaning to their end. By examining the work of limits in the sonnets and in five of his plays, this book seeks not only to highlight the poet's steadfast commitment to critical rationality. It also aims to plead a case of hermeneutic continence. Present-day appraisals of Shakespeare's world-making and meaning-projecting potential are often overruled by a neo-romantic and phenomenological celebration of plenty. This pre-critical tendency unwittingly obtains epistemic legitimation from philosophical quarters inspired by Alain Badiou's derisive rejection of 'the pathos of finitude'. But finitude is much more than a modish, neo-existentialist, watchword. It is what is left of ontology when reason is done. And cool reason was already at work before Kant. In accounting for the way in which Shakespeare places limits to life (Romeo and Juliet), to experience (The Tempest), to love (the Sonnets), to time (Macbeth), to the world (Hamlet) and to knowledge (Othello), Limited Shakespeare: The Reason of Finitude aims to underscore the deeply mediated dimension of Shakespearean experience, always over-determined by the twin forces of contingency and textual determinism, and his meta-rational and virtually ironic taste for irrational, accidental, and error-driven limits (bonds, bounds, deaths)"--
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Jiménez Heffernan, Julián,
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822.3
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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  • Routledge studies in Shakespeare
  • T&F EBS eBooks
Series volume
37
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  • Shakespeare, William
  • Finite, The, in literature
  • English literature
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Limited Shakespeare : the reason of finitude, Julián Jiménez Heffernan, (electronic resource)
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online resource
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rdacarrier
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  • txt
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rdacontent
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9780429398384
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unknown
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1 online resource
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online
Isbn
9780429675942
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Specific material designation
remote
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(OCoLC)1089256697
Label
Limited Shakespeare : the reason of finitude, Julián Jiménez Heffernan, (electronic resource)
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https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429398384
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
9780429398384
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780429675942
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1089256697

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