Browsing by Subject "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello"
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- ItemIn-Between Nobody and Somebody: Desdemona's Deconstruction(2008) O'Malley, Hayley; Sherman, Debora
- ItemMurderous Errors and Erroneous Murders: Physiology, Society and the Struggle for Identity in Othello and El Medico de su Honra(2001) McBryan, Jennifer; Allen, Elizabeth; Quintero, María Cristina
- Item"Whereby Hangs a Tale" : Narrative and the Deconstruction of the Self in Othello(2010) Tartanella, Emily; Benston, Kimberly W.My thesis examines Othello as a text fundamentally concerned with the nature of narrative and story-telling. I argue that while Othello initially sees narrative as a linear system, he is forced to see it as endlessly recursive, wherein brides re-transform to daughters, adults into children, Christians into barbarians. Through a series of techniques I term "anti-narrative," or which might as well as be termed "anti-linear," (such as gossip, repetition, silence, and generalities), Iago constructs a vision of narrative that has no room for Othello's desire for narrative stability. As such the final act represents not a conclusion or closure, but the acceptance that such closure is impossible.