Caliban and the Rhetoric of Sincerity: Postcolonialism, Performance, and the Self
Building on scholarship regarding sincerity and regarding Caliban in Shakespeare's Tempest, I explore how rhetoric inflects the potential sincerity of the character's final statementI'll be wise hereafter, / And seek for gracewhich has generated widespread scholarly disagreement....
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2017]
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2017, Volume: 67, Issue: 1, Pages: 69-88 |
IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture TJ Modern history |
Further subjects: | B
CALIBAN (Fictitious character)
B Postcolonialism B Rhetoric B Sincerity B Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 B Performance B TEMPEST, The (Poem : Shakespeare). Caliban B Caliban B Soliloquy |
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Summary: | Building on scholarship regarding sincerity and regarding Caliban in Shakespeare's Tempest, I explore how rhetoric inflects the potential sincerity of the character's final statementI'll be wise hereafter, / And seek for gracewhich has generated widespread scholarly disagreement. Although Caliban may appear more sincere (his act 2 soliloquy) or insincere (his volte-face responses to Prospero in act 1) in some portions of the play than in others, his development highlights not a reified sincerity or insincerity but the mercurial potential of the selfthrough varied inner forces such as reason and the passionsto use the notion of sincerity as a cover for selfish ends. |
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ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0148333117729686 |