Interpersonal Idiom in Shakespeare, Donne, and Early Modern Culture

The Interpersonal Idiom offers a timely reformulation of identity in the age of Shakespeare, recovering a rich and now obsolete language that casts selfhood not as subjective experience but as the experience of others.

List of contents

Introduction: Other Selves Properties of a 'Self': Words and Things, 1580-1690 Persons in Play: Donne's Body and the Humoral Actor Material Others: Shakespeare's Mirrors and Other Perspectives 'Womans Constancy': The Poetics of Consummation Epilogue: Subjects, Objects, and Contemporary Theory

About the author

NANCY SELLECK is Associate Professor of English at University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA.

Summary

The Interpersonal Idiom offers a timely reformulation of identity in the age of Shakespeare, recovering a rich and now obsolete language that casts selfhood not as subjective experience but as the experience of others.

Additional text

'Selleck's well-researched, elegantly written, and theoretically sophisticated argument offers a timely reformulation of the self/other dyad in early modern literature and culture. By insisting on the ways the self is objectified in, for, and by the other, Selleck challenges the notion of autonomous selfhood that, even when under erasure in post-structuralist critique, pervades current usages of the term. This is an exciting thesis one that has the potential to remap the terrain not only of early modern but also postmodern accounts of the self.' - Jonathan Gil Harris, George Washington University.

Report

'Selleck's well-researched, elegantly written, and theoretically sophisticated argument offers a timely reformulation of the self/other dyad in early modern literature and culture. By insisting on the ways the self is objectified in, for, and by the other, Selleck challenges the notion of autonomous selfhood that, even when under erasure in post-structuralist critique, pervades current usages of the term. This is an exciting thesis one that has the potential to remap the terrain not only of early modern but also postmodern accounts of the self.' - Jonathan Gil Harris, George Washington University.

Product details

• Authors: N Selleck, N. Selleck, Nancy Selleck
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349547623
• ISBN: 978-1-349-54762-3
• No. of pages: 223
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literature—Philosophy, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, culture;humour;identity;poetics;William Shakespeare