Deconstructing Macbeth: The Hyperontological ViewMacbeth 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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... pure otherness , otherness free from every- thing , including psychoanalytical and nonpsychoanalytical causation . ) The shift from subject to " object " amounts to the shift from Macbeth to prophecy , from narrative to gold . No longer ...
... pure otherness , otherness free from every- thing , including psychoanalytical and nonpsychoanalytical causation . ) The shift from subject to " object " amounts to the shift from Macbeth to prophecy , from narrative to gold . No longer ...
Page 216
... pure appearances in Mac- beth , and if pure appearances converge on a separate level of suggestion , we are left with a quite " Manichaean " situation , where order faces order , where one order defies its other.54 A “ logical mutation ...
... pure appearances in Mac- beth , and if pure appearances converge on a separate level of suggestion , we are left with a quite " Manichaean " situation , where order faces order , where one order defies its other.54 A “ logical mutation ...
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... Pure " appearing is already charged with the full measure of what I called " vanishing . " Baudrillard's " pure appearing " is in fact a mode of disappearing . The excess of speed itself takes care of that . As my " falling star ...
... Pure " appearing is already charged with the full measure of what I called " vanishing . " Baudrillard's " pure appearing " is in fact a mode of disappearing . The excess of speed itself takes care of that . As my " falling star ...
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