A. Fletcher

Evolving Hamlet

Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience can help organize the biological functions of our brains into adaptive social networks.

Produktdetails

• Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-29397-1
• 1st ed. 2011
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9781349293971
• ISBN-10: 1349293970
• Artikelnr.: 45074723

Autorenporträt

ANGUS FLETCHER Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at UCLA, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Descent of Ethics Faustus, Macbeth , and The Riddle of Tomorrow Partial Belief in Julius Caesar and Hamlet Othello and the Subject of Ocular Proof The Indian Emperor and the Reason of New World Conflict Cartesian Pity and the New Shakespeare King Lear and the Endurance of Tragedy The Progress of Ethics

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Introduction: The Descent of Ethics Faustus, Macbeth , and The Riddle of Tomorrow Partial Belief in Julius Caesar and Hamlet Othello and the Subject of Ocular Proof The Indian Emperor and the Reason of New World Conflict Cartesian Pity and the New Shakespeare King Lear and the Endurance of Tragedy The Progress of Ethics