The tyranny of immaterialism: Refusing the body in The Winter's Tale
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| author | Camilla Caporicci |
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| contents | The tyranny of immaterialism: Refusing the body in The Winter's Tale Camilla Caporicci Lengua y Literatura Body Iyranny Sexuality Puritanism Shakespeare The aim of this study is to analyse the way Shakespeare's workreveals the failure - in both private and public lives - of a systemof thought in which the body is construed as a mere receptacle ofirrunaterial and "superior" entities, supposedly governed byrational kinds of political and social power. After a briefconsideration of Mensure for Measure as a play focused on thepolitical danger of denying the material aspect of the individual,TIte Winter's Tale will be seen as presenting a similar problem.Here, the aspiration to an ideal of absolute purity and theconsequent demonization of the sexualized flesh, deriving tromboth Pllritan theology and neo-Platonic philosophy, merges withthe anxiety towards the "rebellious" body fostered by sixteenthcentury medical science, constituting the disruptive force thatinitiates the plot. Ihis attitude of denial of the body, linked topolitical power, leads to both a psychological breakdown and, inthe public sphere, to a regime of tyranny. 2015 artículo científico 1135-7789 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333543052003 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3335 SEDERI Yearbook application/pdf Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies SEDERI Yearbook (España) Num.25 |
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| spellingShingle | The tyranny of immaterialism: Refusing the body in The Winter's Tale Camilla Caporicci Lengua y Literatura Body Iyranny Sexuality Puritanism Shakespeare The tyranny of immaterialism: Refusing the body in The Winter's Tale Camilla Caporicci Lengua y Literatura Body Iyranny Sexuality Puritanism Shakespeare The aim of this study is to analyse the way Shakespeare's workreveals the failure - in both private and public lives - of a systemof thought in which the body is construed as a mere receptacle ofirrunaterial and "superior" entities, supposedly governed byrational kinds of political and social power. After a briefconsideration of Mensure for Measure as a play focused on thepolitical danger of denying the material aspect of the individual,TIte Winter's Tale will be seen as presenting a similar problem.Here, the aspiration to an ideal of absolute purity and theconsequent demonization of the sexualized flesh, deriving tromboth Pllritan theology and neo-Platonic philosophy, merges withthe anxiety towards the "rebellious" body fostered by sixteenthcentury medical science, constituting the disruptive force thatinitiates the plot. Ihis attitude of denial of the body, linked topolitical power, leads to both a psychological breakdown and, inthe public sphere, to a regime of tyranny. 2015 artículo científico 1135-7789 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333543052003 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3335 SEDERI Yearbook application/pdf Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies SEDERI Yearbook (España) Num.25 |
| title | The tyranny of immaterialism: Refusing the body in The Winter's Tale |
| topic | Lengua y Literatura Body Iyranny Sexuality Puritanism Shakespeare |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333543052003 |