Eric Langley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3947710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Langley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Langley |
| SIGNATURE | LANGLEY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Standing on a Beach
Eric Langley examines how early modern writers revisit the classically derived emblematic scenario of the shipwreck as they assess the nature of compassionate contact. In this chapter, he shows how the recurring image of the shipwreck provides insight into the extent to which vulnerability, affectivity, embeddedness or interdependence are integrated into the substructure of the subject at various historical moments. He argues that the emblem of t…
Shakespeare's Suicides
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Shakespeare's Contagious Sympathies
ULYSSES ... No man is the lord of any thing,Though in and of him there be much consisting,Till he communicate his parts to others. Troilus and Cressida Understanding the early-modern subject to be constituted, as Shakespeare’s Ulysses explains, by its communications with others—by its open involvement with interlocutors, its participation in interaction—this study considers what happens when these conceptions of compassionate communication and sy…
Shakespeare's Contagious Sympathies
Plagued by Kindness
Closely following the discussion of the previous chapter, this chapter focuses solely on Othello , where Iago’s contagiously sympathetic attentions, his poisonous ‘medicine’, are shown to operate with the duplicitous efficacy of the pharmakon , and via the subtle insinuations of plague, just as period treatises on the medicinal capacity of the friend and the detrimental effects of the flatterer would have warned his vulnerable victim-patients. Th…
Erin Sullivan, Beyond melancholy
Erin Sullivan, Beyond melancholy: sadness and selfhood in renaissance England." The Seventeenth Century, 31(4), pp. 495–496
The path to which wild error leads
Disrupting the causal progress of his comic design, Shakespeare's narrative swerve introduces the accidental into a teleological plot, allowing the errancy of individual will while promoting new energetic narrative structure. Offering a Lucretian reading of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, I consider how the playwright's complex association of identity, chance, and genre can be informed by philosophical atomism, approached along the trajectory of …
Postured like a whore? Misreading Hermione's statue
This article responds to Harold Bloom's call to ‘read for the clinamen’– an author's creative misprision of, or characteristic divergence from, the work of a literary antecedent – offering an account of Shakespeare's deviation from a number of influential or source texts in his The Winter's Tale . From Ovid's tale of Pygmalion to Marston's Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image ; from Greene's Pandosto to Aretino's Sixteen Postures , I demonstrate ho…
Plagued by kindness
This article considers Shakespeare's metaphors of transmission, contagion and infection in the light of period plague tracts, medical treatises and plague time literature. The author demonstrates how period conceptions of disease are predicated upon a notion of sympathetic transference and, consequently, how kindness, likeness and communication between characters in Shakespearean drama are complicated and fraught with period specific anxiety. Thi…
Narcissism and Suicide in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
The subjects of this book are the subjects whose subjects are themselves. Narcissus so himself himself forsook, And died to kiss his shadow in the brook. In accusing the introspective Adonis of narcissistic self‐absorption, Shakespeare's Venus employs a geminative construction—‘himself himself’—that provides a keynote for this study of Renaissance reflexive subjectivity. Through close analysis of a number of Shakespearean texts—including Venus an…
Narcissism & Suicide
Through close analysis of Shakespearean texts and discussion of Renaissance revisions of Ovid, this book illustrates how the seemingly extreme figures of the narcissist and self-slaughterer are indicative of early-modern attitudes to interiority.
Romana mors in Antony and Cleopatra
Anatomizing the early‐modern eye
This article discusses developments in early‐modern literary and scientific conceptions of vision, examining the effect that anatomical discoveries had upon aesthetic representations of the eye. Analysing both scientific and poetic texts, I illustrate features of the period's depictions of the visual member, before moving into an extended discussion of Phineas Fletcher's somatic epic, The Purple Island . Fletcher's text, heavily aestheticised and…
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Anatomizing the early‐modern eye
This article discusses developments in early‐modern literary and scientific conceptions of vision, examining the effect that anatomical discoveries had upon aesthetic representations of the eye. Analysing both scientific and poetic texts, I illustrate features of the period's depictions of the visual member, before moving into an extended discussion of Phineas Fletcher's somatic epic, The Purple Island . Fletcher's text, heavily aestheticised and…
Narcissism and Suicide in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
The subjects of this book are the subjects whose subjects are themselves. Narcissus so himself himself forsook, And died to kiss his shadow in the brook. In accusing the introspective Adonis of narcissistic self‐absorption, Shakespeare's Venus employs a geminative construction—‘himself himself’—that provides a keynote for this study of Renaissance reflexive subjectivity. Through close analysis of a number of Shakespearean texts—including Venus an…
Narcissism & Suicide
Through close analysis of Shakespearean texts and discussion of Renaissance revisions of Ovid, this book illustrates how the seemingly extreme figures of the narcissist and self-slaughterer are indicative of early-modern attitudes to interiority.
Romana mors in Antony and Cleopatra
Plagued by kindness
This article considers Shakespeare's metaphors of transmission, contagion and infection in the light of period plague tracts, medical treatises and plague time literature. The author demonstrates how period conceptions of disease are predicated upon a notion of sympathetic transference and, consequently, how kindness, likeness and communication between characters in Shakespearean drama are complicated and fraught with period specific anxiety. Thi…
Postured like a whore? Misreading Hermione's statue
This article responds to Harold Bloom's call to ‘read for the clinamen’– an author's creative misprision of, or characteristic divergence from, the work of a literary antecedent – offering an account of Shakespeare's deviation from a number of influential or source texts in his The Winter's Tale . From Ovid's tale of Pygmalion to Marston's Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image ; from Greene's Pandosto to Aretino's Sixteen Postures , I demonstrate ho…
The path to which wild error leads
Disrupting the causal progress of his comic design, Shakespeare's narrative swerve introduces the accidental into a teleological plot, allowing the errancy of individual will while promoting new energetic narrative structure. Offering a Lucretian reading of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, I consider how the playwright's complex association of identity, chance, and genre can be informed by philosophical atomism, approached along the trajectory of …
Erin Sullivan, Beyond melancholy
Erin Sullivan, Beyond melancholy: sadness and selfhood in renaissance England." The Seventeenth Century, 31(4), pp. 495–496
Shakespeare's Contagious Sympathies
ULYSSES ... No man is the lord of any thing,Though in and of him there be much consisting,Till he communicate his parts to others. Troilus and Cressida Understanding the early-modern subject to be constituted, as Shakespeare’s Ulysses explains, by its communications with others—by its open involvement with interlocutors, its participation in interaction—this study considers what happens when these conceptions of compassionate communication and sy…
Shakespeare's Contagious Sympathies
Plagued by Kindness
Closely following the discussion of the previous chapter, this chapter focuses solely on Othello , where Iago’s contagiously sympathetic attentions, his poisonous ‘medicine’, are shown to operate with the duplicitous efficacy of the pharmakon , and via the subtle insinuations of plague, just as period treatises on the medicinal capacity of the friend and the detrimental effects of the flatterer would have warned his vulnerable victim-patients. Th…
Shakespeare's Suicides
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Standing on a Beach
Eric Langley examines how early modern writers revisit the classically derived emblematic scenario of the shipwreck as they assess the nature of compassionate contact. In this chapter, he shows how the recurring image of the shipwreck provides insight into the extent to which vulnerability, affectivity, embeddedness or interdependence are integrated into the substructure of the subject at various historical moments. He argues that the emblem of t…
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