Open AccessThe inauguration of Modern Subjectivity: Shakespeare’s “lyrical tragedy” Richard II
Author(s) -
John J. Joughin
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
e-rea
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1638-1718
DOI - 10.4000/erea.429
Subject(s) - hamlet (protein complex) , subjectivity , tragedy (event) , the renaissance , reading (process) , subject (documents) , structuralism (philosophy of science) , literature , art , focus (optics) , philosophy , art history , epistemology , linguistics , computer science , physics , library science , optics
During the theorisation of Renaissance studies in the 1980s the focus was on the punctual emergence of the early modern subject circa 1600, the “decisive transitional moment” usually hinging on a reading of Hamlet’s emergent sense of interiority (Aers, “A whisper in the ear of the early modernists” passim). There are of course huge advances in such a reading as it highlights the contingent and created nature of human experience. Post-structuralism usefully isolated the ‘human’ as an invention..