- Tytuł:
- “Forward and Backward”: Actants and Agency in Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus” and Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”
- Autorzy:
- Sawyer, Robert
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2048123.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2021-12-30
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
- Tematy:
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Posthumanism
Actant
Agency
Prospero
Doctor Faustus
Mephistopheles
Ariel
Caliban
Transmedial
entanglement
daemons
Robert Boyle
Thomas Hobbes
Aristotle - Opis:
- This essay presents a posthumanist reading of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, two plays which feature a scientist/magus who attempts to control his environment through personal agency. After detailing the analogy between the agency of posthuman figures and the workings of computerized writing machines, as Katherine Hayles has proposed, my essay shows how Kott’s writing, especially his notion of the “Grand Mechanism” of history, anticipates the posthumanist theories that are currently dominating literary assessments. His critique of The Tempest makes this idea perfectly clear when he disputes the standard notion that Prospero represents a medieval magus; he instead argues that Prospero was more akin to Leonardo DaVinci, “a master of mechanics and hydraulics,” one who would have embraced revolutionary advances in “astronomy” as well as “anatomy” (1974: 321).
- Źródło:
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Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance; 2021, 24, 39; 105-119
2083-8530
2300-7605 - Pojawia się w:
- Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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