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The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture
Christopher Pye
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Description for The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 216 pages, 26 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3H; 3JB; ACND; AGB; CFD; DSGS; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
In The Vanishing Christopher Pye combines psychoanalytic and cultural theory to advance an innovative interpretation of Renaissance history and subjectivity. Locating the emergence of the modern subject in the era’s transition from feudalism to a modern societal state, Pye supports his argument with interpretations of diverse cultural and literary phenomena, including Shakespeare’s Hamlet and King Lear, witchcraft and demonism, anatomy theaters, and the paintings of Michelangelo.
Pye explores the emergence of the early modern subject in terms of a range of subjectivizing mechanisms tied to the birth of a modern conception of history, one that is structured around a ... Read more
In The Vanishing Christopher Pye combines psychoanalytic and cultural theory to advance an innovative interpretation of Renaissance history and subjectivity. Locating the emergence of the modern subject in the era’s transition from feudalism to a modern societal state, Pye supports his argument with interpretations of diverse cultural and literary phenomena, including Shakespeare’s Hamlet and King Lear, witchcraft and demonism, anatomy theaters, and the paintings of Michelangelo.
Pye explores the emergence of the early modern subject in terms of a range of subjectivizing mechanisms tied to the birth of a modern conception of history, one that is structured around a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822325475
SKU
V9780822325475
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About Christopher Pye
Christopher Pye is Professor of English at Williams College. He is the author of The Regal Phantasm: Shakespeare and the Politics of Spectacle.
Reviews for 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 “Pye moves with great concision, delivering dazzling insights and startling conjunctions. ... Read more