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Hamlet, Shakespeare-Biographie und die Struktur des Ulysses by Therese Fischer-Seidel is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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In Chapter 9 of James Joyce's Ulysses ("Scylla and Charybdis") Stephen Dedalus, quite often alter ego of the author, has to stand a discussion in the National Library in Dublin about life and art, in particular about Hamlet and Shakespeare's biography. Stephen develops the seemingly absurd theory that Hamlet is Shakespeare, only to deconstruct it later on. Far from a mimetic conception of art, the author and his alter ego refute the assumption of many Shakespeare biographiesold and newthat Shakespeare's art imitates his life. Nevertheless, Joyce's innovative narrative techniquethe presentation of consciousnesshas been used so convincingly to give a life-like impression of his characters' minds that its basic form and contents became very influential. It was for instance taken up by Antony Burgess, Shakespeare and Joyce critic, in his fictional Shakespeare biography Nothing Like the Sun. As Germaine Greer complains in her book Shakespeare's Wife, the idea of Shakespeare's biography and in particular his relationship to his wife Anne Hathaway, which the young artist Stephen Dedalus develops in this chapter, comes up in a number of contemporary Shakespeare biographies. One target of t
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- Author
- Therese Fischer-Seidel
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- DE
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)