Shakespeare and the Nature of Love: Literature, Culture, EvolutionNorthwestern University Press, 2007 - 245 Seiten The best conception of love, Marcus Nordlund contends, and hence the best framework for its literary analysis, must be a fusion of evolutionary, cultural, and historical explanation. It is within just such a bio-cultural nexus that Nordlund explores Shakespeare’s treatment of different forms of love. His approach leads to a valuable new perspective on Shakespearean love and, more broadly, on the interaction between our common humanity and our historical contingency as they are reflected, recast, transformed, or even suppressed in literary works. After addressing critical issues about love, biology, and culture raised by his method, Nordlund considers four specific forms of love in seven of Shakespeare’s plays. Examining the vicissitudes of parental love in Titus Andronicus and Coriolanus, he argues that Shakespeare makes a sustained inquiry into the impact of culture and society upon the natural human affections. King Lear offers insight into the conflicted relationship between love and duty. In two problem plays about romantic love, Troilus and Cressida and All’s Well that Ends Well, the tension between individual idiosyncrasies and social consensus becomes especially salient. And finally, in Othello and The Winter’s Tale, Nordlund asks what Shakespeare can tell us about the dark avatar of jealousy. |
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... hand ( 3.1.151-57 ) . This is , of course , a perverse parental love test : How far - reaching is your love for your children ? What costs to the self are you prepared to incur to save them ? What follows is an extended and almost ...
... hand ( 3.1.151-57 ) . This is , of course , a perverse parental love test : How far - reaching is your love for your children ? What costs to the self are you prepared to incur to save them ? What follows is an extended and almost ...
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... hand , there is very little dif- ference between the nasty doctrine he espouses— " the younger rises when the old doth fall " ( 3.3.25 ) —and the social Darwinist assumption that the survival of the fittest ( which for Herbert Spencer ...
... hand , there is very little dif- ference between the nasty doctrine he espouses— " the younger rises when the old doth fall " ( 3.3.25 ) —and the social Darwinist assumption that the survival of the fittest ( which for Herbert Spencer ...
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... hand , a love that is reduced to a duty ceases to be an emotion in any meaningful sense and becomes a formal routine or practice . On the other hand , love cannot be freely given in any absolute sense since it involves an element of ...
... hand , a love that is reduced to a duty ceases to be an emotion in any meaningful sense and becomes a formal routine or practice . On the other hand , love cannot be freely given in any absolute sense since it involves an element of ...
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Chapter | 6 |
The Nature of Love | 17 |
Chapter 2 | 52 |
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