{"title":"What If the Play Were Called Ophelia? Gender and Genre in Hamlet","authors":"Jillian Luke","doi":"10.1093/camqtly/bfz038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfz038","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Guided by Freud's writing on fort/da in 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle', this essay contends that the characters in Hamlet are preoccupied with retelling the plot of Hamlet. Ophelia tells a markedly different kind of story to those told by her lover and brother, and she tells it for different reasons. By retelling Hamlet as a ballad, not a tragedy, Ophelia refuses to accept the inherent dignity and value of the suffering of great men. Instead, she voices the suffering of all abandoned women, and by taking up this subversive, anti-tragic role, she becomes the first feminist critic of Hamlet.","PeriodicalId":374258,"journal":{"name":"The Cambridge Quarterly","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115226103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving Words: Enargeia in Early Modern Devotions","authors":"S. Read","doi":"10.1093/camqtly/bfz034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfz034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article offers a new perspective on how seventeenth-century devotional writings may have been felt and understood by their audiences. It reads modern theories of mind back into the rhetorical styles and techniques that characterised and governed these genres. Kinesis (motor resonance theory) is shown to intersect in suggestive ways with accounts of the classical rhetorical figure of enargeia. The article examines accounts of Christ's passion in the works of de la Puente, Bruno, Cranmer and Loyola, and then in sermons by Donne and Andrewes, performing a kind of rhetorical archaeology that might yield traces of original affect. It seeks to contribute to the growing field of cognitive literary study by investigating important devotional genres that have been so far overlooked.","PeriodicalId":374258,"journal":{"name":"The Cambridge Quarterly","volume":"47 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120896747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tragedy, No Tragedy, and Tragedy with Chinese Characteristics? One Hundred Years of Debate with a 'Happy Ending'","authors":"Jun Chen, Shouhua Qi","doi":"10.1093/camqtly/bfz036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfz036","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The debate over whether China has 'true' and 'genuine' tragedy as the term is supposedly understood in the West began feverishly in the early decades of the twentieth century and continued through the ensuring decades of wars, revolutionary campaigns and movements. The one-hundred-year debate, set against the backdrop of China's one-hundred-year quest for national survival, renewal, and recognition, reached its climax in the last decades of the twentieth century with a 'happy ending' of sorts as the country embarked on a historical journey to reclaim its place on the world stage.","PeriodicalId":374258,"journal":{"name":"The Cambridge Quarterly","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133209890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 'Conspiracy of Words' in David Copperfield","authors":"Toru Sasaki","doi":"10.1093/camqtly/bfz035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfz035","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Nabokov finds a 'conspiracy of words' in Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. The same phenomenon can be observed in David Copperfield, where the words on the page constantly echo and resonate with each other, thereby generating significances that may be hidden unless carefully scrutinised, or that may be unintended by the novelist himself. A close examination of the language of the text reveals that seemingly trivial incidents, such as Aunt Betsey's aiming a blow at Dr Chillip and her attempt to cork Ham Peggotty's ear, have compelling significances in relation to the novel's perspicacious pre-Freudian psychology.","PeriodicalId":374258,"journal":{"name":"The Cambridge Quarterly","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114623043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Articulating a New Identity: Keywords for Today","authors":"Jordan Savage","doi":"10.1093/camqtly/bfz015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfz015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":374258,"journal":{"name":"The Cambridge Quarterly","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125037397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"End of the Line","authors":"T. Tregear","doi":"10.1093/camqtly/bfz027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfz027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":374258,"journal":{"name":"The Cambridge Quarterly","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125056049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tied to the Mast","authors":"J. Fenton","doi":"10.1093/camqtly/bfz026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfz026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":374258,"journal":{"name":"The Cambridge Quarterly","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126339626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impressions of Writing","authors":"Simon J. James","doi":"10.1093/camqtly/bfaa003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfaa003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":374258,"journal":{"name":"The Cambridge Quarterly","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134251907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}