The Vanishing - Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture

"Christopher Pye's elegantly written and argued "The Vanishing" is a terrific book. It could by itself renew interest in the merits and possibilities of psychoanalytic theory not only for reading early modern culture but for literary studies more generally."-- Karen Newman, author of "Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama"

List of contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1. The Theater, the Market, and the Subject of History
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2. Froth in the Mirror: Demonism, Sexuality, and the Early Modern Subject
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3. Vanishing Point
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4. Dumb Hamlet
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5. Subject Matter

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Christopher Pye

Summary

Combines psychoanalytic and cultural theory to advance an innovative interpretation of Renaissance history and subjectivity. This title discusses the distinctly economic character of early modern subjectivity and how this, too, is implicated in our own modern modes of historical understanding.

Product details

• Authors: Pye, Christopher Pye
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2000
• EAN: 9780822325109
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2510-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Weight: 594 g
• Illustrations: 26 b&w illustrations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, Plays / Drama