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Hum : časopis Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Mostaru, Dec 7, 2011
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Madness, as one of the most controversial and challenging Renaissance topics, was not only deeply... more Madness, as one of the most controversial and challenging Renaissance topics, was not only deeply influenced by its mediaeval heritage but also the mediaeval perceptions of dominating masculinity and subordinating, vulnerable femininity. Thus, the numerous Renaissance treatises feverishly tried to explain various and, often identical, mental disorders. However, this was done with difficulty. The aim of this paper is to analyze and discuss the gendered perception of two of these mental disorders, namely female hysteria and male melancholy. Hysteria was primarily aestheticized and eroticized, while melancholy was intellectualized. As a man of his time, Shakespeare had surely been familiar with the gendered perception of madness. His portrayal of women in tragedies abounds in varieties due to his direct questioning of these categories. His first hysterical character, Ophelia, is unquestionably conventional while lady Macbeth challenges the established gender roles. King Lear, on the ot...
e two most prominent mental disorders in Renaissance were madness and melancholy. However, the in... more e two most prominent mental disorders in Renaissance were madness and melancholy. However, the insufficient familiarity with its symptoms and causes bore not only the Renaissance's fascination but also the distinction between madness, melancholy, hysteria, bewitchment, anger or rashness. e Renaissance theatre tried to stage this popular topic despite its scanty props. Shakespeare was familiar with the then living notions and thus used a number of symptoms to present the chaos madness aroused. Still, the most obvious symptom for Shakespeare was the fragmented and incoherent speech of his mad characters. is pattern can be connected to Julia Kristeva's modern theory of an asymbolic and melancholic language depicted in her book Black Sun (). Despite a significant time distance between Shakespeare's tragedies and Julia Kristeva's theory, the aim of this paper is to show that Kristeva's theory of an asymbolic, incoherent speech can be applied to the speech of Shakespeare's mad characters, namely Ophelia, Hamlet, lady Macbeth, king Lear and Edgar.
FOLIA LINGUISTICA ET LITTERARIA: ČASOPIS ZA NAUKU O JEZIKU I KNJIŽEVNOSTI (19, 2017
Identiteti -Kulture -Jezici Identities -Cultures -Languages Location: Title: Between , 2019
Hum : časopis Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Mostaru, Dec 7, 2011
Mostariensia
Madness, as one of the most controversial and challenging Renaissance topics, was not only deeply... more Madness, as one of the most controversial and challenging Renaissance topics, was not only deeply influenced by its mediaeval heritage but also the mediaeval perceptions of dominating masculinity and subordinating, vulnerable femininity. Thus, the numerous Renaissance treatises feverishly tried to explain various and, often identical, mental disorders. However, this was done with difficulty. The aim of this paper is to analyze and discuss the gendered perception of two of these mental disorders, namely female hysteria and male melancholy. Hysteria was primarily aestheticized and eroticized, while melancholy was intellectualized. As a man of his time, Shakespeare had surely been familiar with the gendered perception of madness. His portrayal of women in tragedies abounds in varieties due to his direct questioning of these categories. His first hysterical character, Ophelia, is unquestionably conventional while lady Macbeth challenges the established gender roles. King Lear, on the ot...
e two most prominent mental disorders in Renaissance were madness and melancholy. However, the in... more e two most prominent mental disorders in Renaissance were madness and melancholy. However, the insufficient familiarity with its symptoms and causes bore not only the Renaissance's fascination but also the distinction between madness, melancholy, hysteria, bewitchment, anger or rashness. e Renaissance theatre tried to stage this popular topic despite its scanty props. Shakespeare was familiar with the then living notions and thus used a number of symptoms to present the chaos madness aroused. Still, the most obvious symptom for Shakespeare was the fragmented and incoherent speech of his mad characters. is pattern can be connected to Julia Kristeva's modern theory of an asymbolic and melancholic language depicted in her book Black Sun (). Despite a significant time distance between Shakespeare's tragedies and Julia Kristeva's theory, the aim of this paper is to show that Kristeva's theory of an asymbolic, incoherent speech can be applied to the speech of Shakespeare's mad characters, namely Ophelia, Hamlet, lady Macbeth, king Lear and Edgar.
FOLIA LINGUISTICA ET LITTERARIA: ČASOPIS ZA NAUKU O JEZIKU I KNJIŽEVNOSTI (19, 2017
Identiteti -Kulture -Jezici Identities -Cultures -Languages Location: Title: Between , 2019