Loose Notes on Stoicism, Interiority, and Epistemological Crisis in Elizabeth Cary's "Tragedy of Mariam"

Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: "Seventeenth-Century Women's Writing", language: English, abstract: As the title indicates, this paper presents a rather loose collection, or perhaps a montage of observations I made while closely reading and thinking about Cary's famous closet drama. These observations concern, among other things, the heroine's self-fashioning as a Stoic subject; the resulting problems of continual identity, interiority, and subjection; the linguistic dimension of Herod's madness, which I (owing much of my outlook on things to Foucault) read as an instance of escalating epistemological crisis.

Product details

• Authors: Gundula E Rommel, Gundula E. Rommel
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.01.2012
• EAN: 9783656096498
• ISBN: 978-3-656-09649-8
• No. of pages: 24
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 2 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 51 g
• Series: Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V184713; Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V184713
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics