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The resonance that Jacques Derridas theory of deconstruction had in the field of Shakespearean criticism beginning with the late seventies was just as dramatic as the playwrights literary works. With a revolutionary promise to liberate interpretation from the reigns of logocentrism and of the authorial figure, deconstruction created the premises of unbound readings resistant to fixed signification. The early nineties, however, signaled a radical shift towards a humanist perspective which determined Shakespeares central position Western literary canon. The author reviews the development of...

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject American Studies - Literature, Babes-Bolyai Universitat, language: English, abstract: The essay presents a detailed analysis of the 'Calypso', 'Hades' and 'Lestrygonians' episodes of James Joyce's novel, Ulysses, juxtaposing a critical view on the construction of these sequences and the inward development of the Joyce's protagonist, Leopold Bloom. The paper focuses on the transformative force of the consciousness of the Joycean character and how it is shaped by external elements filtered by a keen awareness ultimately outlining a new vision of the...