I gather this is a class with some set texts? The obvious literary text, to me, is Hamlet--not only because it is an interesting document in the self but also because almost every version of the self has been found in it (he's a stoic, a skeptic, a melancholic, a romantic, a (or maybe the) Freudian subject, a post-modern self-alientated machine, what have you: one stop shopping.
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Date: 2008-06-02 05:41 pm (UTC)I gather this is a class with some set texts? The obvious literary text, to me, is Hamlet--not only because it is an interesting document in the self but also because almost every version of the self has been found in it (he's a stoic, a skeptic, a melancholic, a romantic, a (or maybe the) Freudian subject, a post-modern self-alientated machine, what have you: one stop shopping.
More beer and chicken....