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The dissertation studies the presence of the binary opposition of stasis and ecstasy, and the way it is transcended in textual constructs of the early modern self. More specifically, it discusses representations of modes of selfhood in the literature of Elizabethan England. The text of the dissertation comprises four parts, an appendix, bibliography, and notes. The introductory theoretical part attempts a reading of recent philosophical and critical theories in the terms of the stasis-ecstasy binarity in their representations of selfood. Special attention is devoted to phenomenology, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Deleuzian schizoanalysis, and the critical ideas of Jacques Baudrillard. In its historical part, the study offers a genealogy, in the Foucauldian sense, of the early modern self, read through its construction of static and ecstatic selves. It maps out the way the opposition is imagined in the history of ideas from Pythagoras and Plato through medieval philosophy to the debates of the early modern age. The analytical part constructs a genre-aware literary archaeology of the Elizabethan self. The first three books of Edmund Spensers epic The Faerie Queene, Christopher Marlowes dramas Tamburlaine the Great, Part I and II, and Doctor Faustus, and William Shakespeares lyrical Sonnets are all read closely in the terms of the static and ecstatic selves they imagine poetically, and the ways in which their binarity is transcended.
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