A Shakespearean subject - Shylock in The Merchant of Venice

ISBN-13: 9786208663599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 120 str.

Fernando Lima Costa

Opis

This research, entitled "A Shakespearean subject - Shylock in The Merchant of Venice", aims to investigate the process of subject constitution within Shakespearean dramatic action. The theoretical reflection, which is based on the studies of Michael Pêcheux's Discourse Analysis in dialogue with Dominique Maingueneau's literary discourse and the notions advocated by Mikhail Bakhtin, is constituted by examining the corpus made up of the statements of the character Shylock from the Shakespearean literary work - The Merchant of Venice. Within the dramatic action, the subject is inscribed in different discursive formations, which place him in different discursive positions within the event. In this way, when the subject takes a position within the dramatic action, he is circumscribed within a given discursive formation. This position makes him insert himself into the interdiscursive and intradiscursive thread, in which we have the engendering of his process of constitution as a subject in, through and of discourse. This process, in turn, is based on the language practices established in the enunciative event.