Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: Study of King Lear, Othello the Duchess of Malfi and the White Devil |
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... thought ( and thence even our subjectivity ) , and begins to posit something like a feminist epistemology . For me , addressing the binary and hierarchical structures of Renaissance thought is just such a beginning . The four plays I ...
... thought ( and thence even our subjectivity ) , and begins to posit something like a feminist epistemology . For me , addressing the binary and hierarchical structures of Renaissance thought is just such a beginning . The four plays I ...
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... thought ( analogical thinking ) , and on the other we can see that it is the actual analogical connection between analogis entis and the Copernican discoveries which contributes to the disintegration of that mode of thought . This ...
... thought ( analogical thinking ) , and on the other we can see that it is the actual analogical connection between analogis entis and the Copernican discoveries which contributes to the disintegration of that mode of thought . This ...
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... thought on marriage , a ' well - nigh universal characteristic of Christian thought : the simultaneous existence of contradictions , where a viewpoint is always a more or less unstable balance between opposites'.2 Thus the ...
... thought on marriage , a ' well - nigh universal characteristic of Christian thought : the simultaneous existence of contradictions , where a viewpoint is always a more or less unstable balance between opposites'.2 Thus the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Centrality of Gender | 7 |
Feminism and Tragedy | 9 |
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