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Wasting Breath in Hamlet
Get PDFThis is the final version. Available on open access from Palgrave via the DOI in this recordThis chapter draws on instances of disordered breathing in
Hamlet in order to examine the cultural signifcance of sighs in the early
modern period, as well as in the context of current work in the feld
of medical humanities. Tracing the medical history of sighing in ancient
and early modern treatises of the passions, the chapter argues that sighs,
in the text and the performance of the tragedy, exceed their conventional
interpretation as symptoms of pain and disrupt meaning on the page and
on stage. In the light of New Materialist theory, the air circulating in
Hamlet is shown to dismantle narratives of representation, posing new
questions for the future of medical humanities
Brian Cummings and Freya Sierhuis, eds. Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. x + 318 pp. $124.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-1364-2.
No full textSusan McClary., ed. Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression. UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. xiii + 400 pp. $80. ISBN: 978–1–4426–4062–7.
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