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Description

1. xi, 279 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. "William Shakespeare's Hamlet is probably the best-known and most commented upon work of literature in Western culture. The paradox is that it is at once utterly familiar and strangely elusive--very like our own selves, argues Gabriel Josipovici in this stimulating and original study. Moreover, our desire to master this elusiveness, to "pluck the heart out of its mystery," as Hamlet himself says, precisely mirrors what is going on in the play; and what Shakespeare's play demonstrates is that to conceive human character (and works of art) in this way is profoundly misguided. Rather than rushing to conclusions or setting out a theory of what Hamlet is "about," therefore, we should read and watch patiently and openly, allowing the play to unfold before us in its own time and trying to see each moment in the context of the whole. Josipovici's valuable book is thus an exercise in analysis which puts the physical experience of watching and reading at the heart of the critical process--at once a practical introduction to a great and much-loved play and a sophisticated intervention in some of the key questions of theory and aesthetics of our time"--

Subject

1. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
2. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Hamlet
3. Hamlet (Shakespeare, William)
4. Hamlet (Legendary character)‏
5. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Characters > Hamlet

Call number

1. JFD 16-2278

Author

1. Josipovici, Gabriel, 1940- author.

Title

1. Hamlet : fold on fold / Gabriel Josipovici.

Publisher

1. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

LCCN

1. 2015039587

ISBN

1. 9780300218329 (hardback)
2. 030021832X (hardback)

Research call number

1. JFD 16-2278