Evolving Hamlet: seventeenth-century English tragedy and the ethics of natural selection

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. ANGUS FLETCHER Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at UCLA, USA. INDICE: 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 NewWorld Conflict - Cartesian Pity and the New Shakespeare - 'King Lear' and theEndurance of Tragedy - The Progress of Ethics -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11168-4
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 208
• Fecha Publicación: 15/03/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido