Hamlet in His Modern Guises / / Alexander Welsh.
Focusing on Shakespeare's Hamlet as foremost a study of grief, Alexander Welsh offers a powerful analysis of its protagonist as the archetype of the modern hero. For over two centuries writers and critics have viewed Hamlet's persona as a fascinating blend of self-consciousness, guilt, and...
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Welsh, Alexander, author. Hamlet in His Modern Guises / Alexander Welsh. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2001] ©2001 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Medieval Hamlet Gains a Family -- Chapter Two. Hamlet's Mourning and Revenge Tragedy -- Chapter Three. History, as between Goethe's Hamlet and Scott's -- Chapter Four. Hamlet's Expectations, Pip's Great Guilt -- Chapter Five. Hamlet Decides to Be a Modernist -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Focusing on Shakespeare's Hamlet as foremost a study of grief, Alexander Welsh offers a powerful analysis of its protagonist as the archetype of the modern hero. For over two centuries writers and critics have viewed Hamlet's persona as a fascinating blend of self-consciousness, guilt, and wit. Yet in order to understand more deeply the modernity of this Shakespearean hero, Welsh first situates Hamlet within the context of family and mourning as it was presented in other revenge tragedies of Shakespeare's time. Revenge, he maintains, appears as a function of mourning rather than an end in itself. Welsh also reminds us that the mourning of a son for his father may not always be sincere. This book relates the problem of dubious mourning to Hamlet's ascendancy as an icon of Western culture, which began late in the eighteenth century, a time when the thinking of past generations--or fathers--represented to many an obstacle to human progress. Welsh reveals how Hamlet inspired some of the greatest practitioners of modernity's quintessential literary form, the novel. Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Scott's Redgauntlet, Dickens's Great Expectations, Melville's Pierre, and Joyce's Ulysses all enhance our understanding of the play while illustrating a trend in which Hamlet ultimately becomes a model of intense consciousness. Arguing that modern consciousness mourns for the past, even as it pretends to be free of it, Welsh offers a compelling explanation of why Hamlet remains marvelously attractive to this day. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) Fiction 19th century History and criticism. Fiction 20th century History and criticism. Heroes in literature. Modernism (Literature) Modernism (Literature). LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015 9783110662580 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459531 print 9780691050935 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400824120 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400824120.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Medieval Hamlet Gains a Family -- Chapter Two. Hamlet's Mourning and Revenge Tragedy -- Chapter Three. History, as between Goethe's Hamlet and Scott's -- Chapter Four. Hamlet's Expectations, Pip's Great Guilt -- Chapter Five. Hamlet Decides to Be a Modernist -- Index |
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