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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... interesting chal- lenge is to see him as both . Of course , the complexity of the relation between literature and human na- ture cannot be stressed enough . We cannot expect fictional products of make- believe to mirror the real world ...
... interesting chal- lenge is to see him as both . Of course , the complexity of the relation between literature and human na- ture cannot be stressed enough . We cannot expect fictional products of make- believe to mirror the real world ...
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... interesting about Lavinia's supplication , by contrast , is that it turns to nature not for confirmation of the familial bond but for its dissolution . Nature , in other words , has other normative functions in this play than only to ...
... interesting about Lavinia's supplication , by contrast , is that it turns to nature not for confirmation of the familial bond but for its dissolution . Nature , in other words , has other normative functions in this play than only to ...
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... interesting reading : take the most reasonable and logical explanation you can find and then turn it entirely on its head . If somebody objects , just mention Freud and you're in the clear . I will assume , then , that Leontes is doing ...
... interesting reading : take the most reasonable and logical explanation you can find and then turn it entirely on its head . If somebody objects , just mention Freud and you're in the clear . I will assume , then , that Leontes is doing ...
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Chapter | 6 |
The Nature of Love | 17 |
Chapter 2 | 52 |
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