Deconstructing Macbeth: The Hyperontological ViewFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1990 - 261 pages Macbeth is discussed in relation to Derrida's notion of the metaphysics of presence. Fawkner argues that the quest for metaphysical certitude in Macbeth is related to the hero's transformation from a heroic to a post-heroic status. |
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... sense of his presence, his stage presence. The Weird Sisters pilot and monitor this shifting of the sensation of dramatic presence. They supervise the hero's transformation from heroic to postheroic power, the metaphysical quest ...
... sense of his presence, his stage presence. The Weird Sisters pilot and monitor this shifting of the sensation of dramatic presence. They supervise the hero's transformation from heroic to postheroic power, the metaphysical quest ...
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... sense not the promise of final knowledge about the play ( a notion that would repeat the hero's own tragic error ) but the willingness to ask a set of new questions about Macbeth . In that event , the critical emphasis is on the nature ...
... sense not the promise of final knowledge about the play ( a notion that would repeat the hero's own tragic error ) but the willingness to ask a set of new questions about Macbeth . In that event , the critical emphasis is on the nature ...
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... sense , for the sacrificial impulse in Hegel's allegedly Christian philosophy is quickly prepared to sacrifice itself too . Sacrifice sacrifices sacrifice , put- ting an end to the sacrificial impulse and instead establishing the reign ...
... sense , for the sacrificial impulse in Hegel's allegedly Christian philosophy is quickly prepared to sacrifice itself too . Sacrifice sacrifices sacrifice , put- ting an end to the sacrificial impulse and instead establishing the reign ...
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... sense extends Heidegger's inquiry into the question of being ( TM , 313 ) . As Derrida himself points out in The Truth in Painting , the Heideggerian questioning of Being in its turn presupposes a critique of Western ( i.e. , Cartesian ) ...
... sense extends Heidegger's inquiry into the question of being ( TM , 313 ) . As Derrida himself points out in The Truth in Painting , the Heideggerian questioning of Being in its turn presupposes a critique of Western ( i.e. , Cartesian ) ...
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... sense that they are the mere conditions of possibility for what , beyond deconstruction , already slides abysmally out of reach . Looking at the deconstructionist side of this deconstruction / hyperontology issue , I might first like to ...
... sense that they are the mere conditions of possibility for what , beyond deconstruction , already slides abysmally out of reach . Looking at the deconstructionist side of this deconstruction / hyperontology issue , I might first like to ...
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Page 103 - I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal ; For it must seem their guilt. [Exit. Knocking within. Macb. Whence is that knocking ? How is't with me, when every noise appals me ? What hands are here ? ha ! they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand ? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Page 144 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 84 - My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise; and nothing is, But what is not.