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Joy of the worm : suicide and pleasure in early modern English literature

Joy of the worm : suicide and pleasure in early modern English literature

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Daniel, Drew, 1971-.
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Joy of the worm : suicide and pleasure in early modern English literature / Drew Daniel.
발행사항
Chicago :   University of Chicago Press,   2022.  
형태사항
279 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
총서사항
Thinking literature
ISBN
9780226816494 9780226816500 0226816508
요약
"Voluntary death in literature is not always a matter of tragedy. Drew Daniel identifies a surprisingly common aesthetic attitude that he calls "the joy of the worm," after Cleopatra's embrace of the deadly asp in Shakespeare's play-a pattern where voluntary death is imagined as an occasion for humor, mirth, ecstatic pleasure, even joy and celebration. Daniel draws both a historical and a conceptual distinction between "self-killing" and "suicide." Standard intellectual histories of suicide in the early modern period have understandably emphasized attitudes of abhorrence, scorn, and severity toward voluntary death. Daniel reads an archive of early modern literary scenes and passages, dating from 1534 to 1713, that complicates this picture. In their own distinct responses to the surrounding attitude of censure, writers including Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, and Addison imagine death not as sin or sickness, but instead as heroic gift, sexual release, elemental return, amorous fusion, or political self-rescue. The "joy of the worm" emerges here as an aesthetic mode that shades into schadenfreude, sadistic cruelty, and deliberate "trolling," but can also underwrite powerful feelings of belonging, devotion, and love"--Provided by publisher.
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Introduction: Renaissance self-finishing -- Failed seriousness in the old Arcadia and Gallathea -- Slapstick and synapothanumenon in Antony and Cleopatra -- Trolling decorum in Hamlet and Timon of Athens -- The Open window in Biathanatos -- Inventing suicide in Religio Medici -- A cartoon about suicide prevention in Paradise Lost -- Smiling at daggers in Cato, a Tragedy -- Epilogue.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
일반주제명
English literature --Early modern, 1500-1700 --History and criticism. Suicide in literature.
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책소개

Consulting an extensive archive of early modern literature, Joy of the Worm asserts that voluntary death in literature is not always a matter of tragedy.

In this study, Drew Daniel identifies a surprisingly common aesthetic attitude that he calls "joy of the worm," after Cleopatra's embrace of the deadly asp in Shakespeare's play--a pattern where voluntary death is imagined as an occasion for humor, mirth, ecstatic pleasure, even joy and celebration.

Daniel draws both a historical and a conceptual distinction between "self-killing" and "suicide." Standard intellectual histories of suicide in the early modern period have understandably emphasized attitudes of abhorrence, scorn, and severity toward voluntary death. Daniel reads an archive of literary scenes and passages, dating from 1534 to 1713, that complicate this picture. In their own distinct responses to the surrounding attitude of censure, writers including Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, and Addison imagine death not as sin or sickness, but instead as a heroic gift, sexual release, elemental return, amorous fusion, or political self-rescue. "Joy of the worm" emerges here as an aesthetic mode that shades into schadenfreude, sadistic cruelty, and deliberate "trolling," but can also underwrite powerful feelings of belonging, devotion, and love.


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목차

Introduction: Renaissance Self-Finishing
Chapter 1 Failed Seriousness in the Old Arcadia and Gallathea
Chapter 2 Slapstick and Synapothanumenon in Antony and Cleopatra
Chapter 3 Trolling Decorum in Hamlet and Timon of Athens
Chapter 4 The Open Window in Biathanatos
Interlude Inventing Suicide in Religio Medici
Chapter 5 A Cartoon about Suicide Prevention in Paradise Lost
Chapter 6 Smiling at Daggers in Cato, a Tragedy
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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