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The Dark Side of Reason
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THE DARK SIDE OF REASON Fictionality and Power
Reproduction edition from scan of 1992 edition
Luiz Costa Lima
Translated by Paulo Henriques Britto
Forward by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
“Costa Lima’s argument, highly original and likely to prove controversial, invites us to reread the course of literature from a new perspective. Such an invitation requires solid historical documentation and a persuasive reinterpretation of major texts; both are to be found here in abundance. Costa Lima enriches our understanding of the intellectual ground upon which literature has grown, and his reinterpretations challenge the place assigned in history to various writers and critics and force us to read many works anew. His perspective is not only transnational, but also it integrates the literature of the Americas, and specifically of South America, into the broader course of literary history as a full-fledged participant in the struggles of legitimization waged by imaginative writing.”
- Wlad Godzich, University of Geneva
This compelling, many-faceted work argues that Western culture has always found something profoundly unsettling about imaginative writing and that it has devised various ways of “containing” such writing or at least making it less dangerous. The historical record of censorship and other forms of the containment of literature is relatively well known, though it has been analyzed more often in terms of its effects on literature than its causes. Costa Lima demonstrates that theories of society and of human nature are at stake in these acts of rejection and condemnation.
A new historical consciousness has recently swept across the entire breadth of literary studies. However, Costa Lima shows that this return to history is frequently nothing more than the return of an unexamined old history of literature, merely updated in its vocabulary and reflecting current concerns with such issues as gender or cultural difference. By contrast, he challenges the assumptions of the old history (and therefore of the new, insofar as the latter reinstates the old) and calls for the elaboration of an entirely different perspective on the historical course of literature.
Costa Lima asserts that since the beginning of modernity, Western reason has been shaped in opposition to – and through the repression of – the imaginative faculty, typified by fictionality. He focuses on the history of such concepts as mimesis, individuality, and verisimilitude, and in the process covers a wide range of authors and topics – Cervantes, Diderot, Borges, autobiographical writing, and Latin American literature, among others.
The Dark Side of Reason consists of essays drawn from two books, Sociedade e dicurso ficcional (1986) and O Fingidor e o censor (1988). It also includes a chapter, written especially for this volume, that discussed Shakespeare’s Tempest in the light of Costa Lima’s argument about control of the imaginary.
Luiz Costa Lima is Professor of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.
Comic Women, Tragic Men : A Study of Gender and Genre in Shakespeare
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This book proceeds from the assumption that Shakespeare, so often perceived as the one writer who appears to have transcended the limits of gender, inevitably writes from the perspective of his own gender. From this perspective, whatever represents the Self is necessarily male; and the Other, which challenges the Self, is female. The author’s approach gives us a fresh understanding of both Shakespeare’s characters and the structure of the plays.
The author defines genre in terms of the nature of the challenge offered by the Other to the Self. Using specific plays and characters of Shakespeare, the author shows how in tragedy the Other betrays or appears to betray the Self; in comedy the Other evades the social hierarchies dominated by versions of the male Self; in romance the Other comes and goes, leaving the Self bereft when she is gone and astounding him with happiness when she reappears. History is defined as a genre in which the masculine heroes confront no challenge from the Other but only from each other, from other versions of the Self.
The book consists of a long theoretical introduction followed by chapters on comedy, history, and some individual plays: Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest.
Linda Bamber is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University.
This is a reproduction edition based on a scanned copy of the following original edition:
Comic women, tragic men: a study of gender and genre in Shakespeare
By Linda Bamber
Published by Stanford University Press, 1982
ISBN 0804711267, 9780804711265 211 pages
ONE Comic Women Tragic Men 1
misogyny , Othello , Shakespeare
TWO Antony and Cleopatra 45
Antony and Cleopatra , Egypt , King Lear
THREE Hamlet 71
Ophelia , Laertes , Claudius
FOUR Macbeth and Coriolanus 91
Coriolanus , Lady Macduff , Volumnia
FIVE The Comic Heroine and the Avoidance 109
Shakespearean comedy , Twelfth Night , Shylock
Toward Tragedy 135
Richard II , Henry VI , Falstaff
The Tempest 169
Winter's Tale , Prospero , Caliban
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
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Another of my favorite poems. It needs cropped, though.
Titania, Queen of the Fairies
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NFDC's 2006 Season Mug
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