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The improbability of Othello : rhetorical anthropology and shakespearean selfhood
Record details
- OCLC: ocn615636933
- ISBN: 0226016129 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780226016122 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (450 p.)
remote - Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Content descriptions
| Note: | Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents: | Prologue. 'As if for surety': the problematics of shakespearean probability -- Toward a rhetorical genealogy of Othello -- 'My parts, my title, and my perfect soul': ingenuity, apodeixis, and the origins of rhetorical anthropology -- 'Against my estimation': ciceronian decorum, stoic constancy, and the production of ethos -- The logic of Renaissance rhetoric -- 'Apt and true': speech, world, and thought in Shakespeare's humanist dialectic -- 'Yonder's foul murders done': place, predicament, and grammatical space on Cyprus -- Willful words, Christian anxieties, and shakespearean dramaturgy -- 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus': will, habit, and the discourse of res -- 'Preposterous conclusions': eros, enargeia, and composition in Othello -- 'Prophetic fury': the language of theatrical potentiality and the economy of shakespearean reception -- Tropings of the self in Shakespeare's scripts -- 'I am not what I am': Shakespeare's scripted subject -- 'Nobody. I myself': discovering what passes show -- Performing the improbable other on Shakespeare's stage -- 'Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago': ligatures of self and stranger -- 'It is not words that shakes me thus': Burbage, as if Othello -- Epilogue. 'Make not impossible/that which but seems unlike': the twilight of probability and the dawn of shakespearean romance. |
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| Subject: | Shakespeare, William -- 1564-1616 Probability in literature Self in literature Rhetoric, Renaissance |