Shakespeare and the Nature of Love: Literature, Culture, EvolutionNorthwestern University Press, 2007 - 245 páginas The best conception of love, Marcus Nordlund contends, and hence the best framework for its literary analysis, must be a fusion of evolutionary, cultural, and historical explanation. It is within just such a bio-cultural nexus that Nordlund explores Shakespeare’s treatment of different forms of love. His approach leads to a valuable new perspective on Shakespearean love and, more broadly, on the interaction between our common humanity and our historical contingency as they are reflected, recast, transformed, or even suppressed in literary works. After addressing critical issues about love, biology, and culture raised by his method, Nordlund considers four specific forms of love in seven of Shakespeare’s plays. Examining the vicissitudes of parental love in Titus Andronicus and Coriolanus, he argues that Shakespeare makes a sustained inquiry into the impact of culture and society upon the natural human affections. King Lear offers insight into the conflicted relationship between love and duty. In two problem plays about romantic love, Troilus and Cressida and All’s Well that Ends Well, the tension between individual idiosyncrasies and social consensus becomes especially salient. And finally, in Othello and The Winter’s Tale, Nordlund asks what Shakespeare can tell us about the dark avatar of jealousy. |
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... specific psychological adaptation — or more precisely , the algorith- mic , modular neural structure posited by many evolutionary psychologists— remains conjectural in spite of a wealth of supporting evidence from the human and animal ...
... specific psychological adaptation — or more precisely , the algorith- mic , modular neural structure posited by many evolutionary psychologists— remains conjectural in spite of a wealth of supporting evidence from the human and animal ...
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... specific to the early modern period . He is a privi- leged and powerful human being who loves his wife deeply and who therefore has something very precious to lose . This situation will quite naturally be exac- erbated in a specific ...
... specific to the early modern period . He is a privi- leged and powerful human being who loves his wife deeply and who therefore has something very precious to lose . This situation will quite naturally be exac- erbated in a specific ...
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... specific situation he finds himself in . But even in real life , let alone art , we would be hard - pressed to find a concept of human nature that could serve such a purpose since this theory would have to deny the extraordinary ...
... specific situation he finds himself in . But even in real life , let alone art , we would be hard - pressed to find a concept of human nature that could serve such a purpose since this theory would have to deny the extraordinary ...
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Chapter | 6 |
The Nature of Love | 17 |
Chapter 2 | 52 |
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