Limited Shakespeare: The Reason of Finitude

ISBN-13: 9781032092805 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 264 str.

Juli?n Jim?nez Heffernan

Opis

In accounting for the way in which Shakespeare places limits to life (Romeo and Juliet), 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.

Spis treści

Introduction

Chapter One: The Limits of Love

Chapter Two: The Limits of Life

Chapter Three: The Limits of the World

Chapter Four: The Limits of Knowledge

Chapter Five: The Limits of Time

Chapter Six: The Limits of Experience

O autorze

Julián Jiménez Heffernan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Universidad de Córdoba, Spain. He holds Ph.D in Philology from the University of Bologna. His dissertation examines the rhetorical dimension of Giordano Bruno’s metaphysical conception of infinity. He has published on Renaissance philosophy and literature, deconstructive rhetorics, romantic theory and modern fiction. His articles have appeared in journals like Comparative Literature, Intersezioni, NOVEL, Arizona Quarterly, Contemporary Literature, The Henry James Review, Textual Practice and Representations. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Extremes: Wild Man, Monster, Beast (Palgrave, 2016).