Evolving Hamlet - Seventeenth Century English Tragedy Ethics of Natural Selection

Informationen zum Autor ANGUS FLETCHER Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at UCLA, USA. Klappentext Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience can help organize the biological functions of our brains into adaptive social networks. Zusammenfassung Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies! this book shows how aesthetic experience can help organize the biological functions of our brains into adaptive social networks. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Descent of Ethics Faustus, Macbeth , and The Riddle of Tomorrow Partial Belief in Julius Caesar and Hamlet Othello and the Subject of Ocular Proof The Indian Emperor and the Reason of New World Conflict Cartesian Pity and the New Shakespeare King Lear and the Endurance of Tragedy The Progress of Ethics

List of contents

Introduction: The Descent of Ethics Faustus, Macbeth , and The Riddle of Tomorrow Partial Belief in Julius Caesar and Hamlet Othello and the Subject of Ocular Proof The Indian Emperor and the Reason of New World Conflict Cartesian Pity and the New Shakespeare King Lear and the Endurance of Tragedy The Progress of Ethics

Product details

• Authors: A Fletcher, A. Fletcher, Angus Fletcher, Fletcher Angus
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2011
• EAN: 9780230111684
• ISBN: 978-0-230-11168-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance; Cognitive Studies in Literatur; Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance; Cognitive Studies in Literatur
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Theater, B, Poetry, Theatre Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Theatre and Performance Arts, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Theatre and Performance Studies