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From Shakespeare to Sh(Web)speare

dc.contributor.authorSosnowska, Monika
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-25T05:20:45Z
dc.date.available2022-07-25T05:20:45Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationSosnowska M., From Shakespeare to Sh(Web)speare, Łódź University Press, Łódź 2016, https://doi.org/10.18778/8088-128-0pl_PL
dc.identifier.isbn978-83-8088-128-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/42515
dc.descriptionDrawing on Allan Edgar Poe’s provocative statement that “The death ... of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world” (1951: 369), I focus on the pivotal role of Shakespeare’s Ophelia in attesting to this assertion. Ophelia’s drowning is probably the most recognizable female death depicted by Shakespeare. Dating back to Gertrude’s ‘reported version’ of the drowning, representations of Ophelia’s eroticized death have occupied the minds of Western artists and writers. Their necrOphelian fantasies materialized as numerous paintings, photographs and literary texts. It seems that Ophelia’s floating dead body is also at the core of postmodern thanatophiliac imagination, taking shape in the form of conventionalized representations, such as: video scenes available on YouTube, amateur photographs in bathtubs posted on photo sharing sites, reproductions and remakes of classical paintings (e.g. John Everett Millais), and contemporary art exhibitions in museums. These references demonstrate that new cyber story – digital afterlife – is being built around the figure of Shakespearean Ophelia, unearthing the sexual attraction of the lifeless female body.pl_PL
dc.description.sponsorshipUdostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój; nr umowy: POWER.03.05.00-00-Z092/17-00. The book publication costs were covered by a grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for young scholars in 2015pl_PL
dc.language.isoenpl_PL
dc.publisherŁódź University Presspl_PL
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Międzynarodowe*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectWilliam Shakespearepl_PL
dc.subjectplayspl_PL
dc.subjectOpheliapl_PL
dc.subjectfemale deathpl_PL
dc.subjectShakespearationspl_PL
dc.subjectpopculturepl_PL
dc.subjectPolish culturepl_PL
dc.titleFrom Shakespeare to Sh(Web)spearepl_PL
dc.typeBookpl_PL
dc.rights.holder© Copyright by Monika Sosnowska, Łódź 2015; © Copyright for this edition by Uniwersytet Łódzki, Łódź 2015pl_PL
dc.page.number118pl_PL
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationUniversity of Łódź, Faculty of International and Political Studies, British and Commonwealth Studies Department, Narutowicza 59, 90-131 Łódźpl_PL
dc.identifier.eisbn978-83-8088-129-7
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dc.identifier.doi10.18778/8088-128-0
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dc.disciplinenauki o kulturze i religiipl_PL


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