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Nothingness, Negativity, and Nominalism in Shakespeare and Petrarch

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Nothingness, Negativity, and Nominalism in Shakespeare and Petrarch

Benjamin Boysen, "Nothingness, Negativity, and Nominalism in Shakespeare and Petrarch"
English | ISBN: 3110691671 | 2020 | 195 pages | EPUB | 1250 KB

Being exposed to the Nominalist expansion in early modernity, Petrarch and Shakespeare are highly preoccupied with a Nominalist dimension of language and representation.
Against this background, the study shows how these Renaissance poets advanced a special notion of subjectivity and identity as rooted in negativity, otherness, and representation.
The book thus argues for a new understanding of negative modes of subjectivity in Petrarch and Shakespeare. A new and sharpened understanding emerging from an interpretation of Francesco Petrarch’s notion of exile and of love in his great poetical cycle Rerum vulgarium fragmenta as well as a meticulous examination of the concept of nothingness in William Shakespeare’s works.
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