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The Rise And Fall Of The Black King: Girardian Thought In The Tragedy Of Macbeth, Matthew Tarnovecky
The Rise And Fall Of The Black King: Girardian Thought In The Tragedy Of Macbeth, Matthew Tarnovecky
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Theorist Rene Girard, in his A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare (1991), creates a near-perfect compendium of his critical thoughts by exploring numerous plays and poems of Shakespeare's. Curiously, however, the tragedy of Macbeth is left out of Girard's many thorough analyses. Herein discussed is an analysis of Macbeth utilizing the Girardian model, intending to demonstrate that Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy may benefit from such a reading as equally as the plays and poems Girard himself has already examined. By drawing upon the concepts generated by Girard in his Violence and the Sacred (1972), one may note how Macbeth is filled …
American Hamlet: Shakespearean Epistemology In David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, James Jason Walsh
American Hamlet: Shakespearean Epistemology In David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, James Jason Walsh
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Infinite Jest has been viewed by champions of its cause as a solution to the defeatist irony of postmodernism and by critics as a postmodern gag in which the reader falls victim to intellectual "jest." Exploring the text's initial affiliations with Hamlet is a fundamental move toward stabilizing Infinite Jest's status as a sincere and authentic representation of American life at the turn of the twenty-first century. The shattered nature of reality and the "stinking thinking" inherent in addiction are depicted through the narrative structure, in which the time is literally "out of joint," and the "antic disposition" of various …