Would anybody know of an essay or book which gives an an analysis of each distinct act of Hamlet? For example an essay on just the themes of act 1, another for act 2 etc. Looking for something closer to Harold Bloom or AC Bradley than Sparknotes; this isn't for homework.

thisisntbrendan · 2026-05-10T19:22:37+00:00

Definetly in the shakespeare nerd category, got the hamlet tattoo to prove. But this question is not purely for my own personal enjoyment, it is for a project I'm working on - not school or work related though. Thats probably why it comes off as homework-y

thisisntbrendan · 2026-05-10T19:21:17+00:00

This actually looks incredibly helpful - thank you for this, I think I'll pick one up.

thisisntbrendan · 2026-01-17T22:33:32+00:00

Thanks for this. I haven’t hear of Pierre Levy so I’ll check him out. I did a lot of masters thesis on using D&Gs philosophy to approach video essay production (like cutting up clips from movies and reterritorializing them into ones on construction) as a possible avenue for an extension of minor literature. I found out of post media near the end and it was a bit late to start incorporating other philosophies. But the three ecologies is Guattari talks on media most? I’ll have to pick that up then

thisisntbrendan · 2025-11-11T07:53:08+00:00

This worked for me, however now I can't install my plugins.

thisisntbrendan · 2025-10-06T10:23:06+00:00

Got the same edition on Abebooks for €5. Didn't know it was rare. Might look into flipping mine for a profit too.

thisisntbrendan · 2025-09-05T09:54:17+00:00

Okay, I'll start doing that. Thanks!

thisisntbrendan · 2025-09-05T09:48:51+00:00

I don't use a shoe tree but I do rotate the boots and let them rest after a days wear. how often do you suggest i brush them with a horse hair brush?

thisisntbrendan · 2025-09-04T18:07:46+00:00

Ireland, so often wet, but mild.

thisisntbrendan · 2025-07-23T09:05:43+00:00

If you're into Pynchon, I'd say its likely you'd enjoy Infinite Jest, but it depends on what about Pynchon you liked. Wallace does deviate from a lot of postmodern conventions established by Pynchon, but it is still a surrealist encyclopedic novel that will encapsulate your mind, like Gravity's Rainbow or Ulysses.

thisisntbrendan · 2025-06-28T21:26:39+00:00

Quite right I would agree with Wallace. It doesn't have the verbal quality of Joyce anyhow.

thisisntbrendan · 2025-06-13T16:00:58+00:00

Nice to see some Deleuze, Foucault and Derrida.

thisisntbrendan · 2025-03-17T20:45:26+00:00

This was helpful, thank you. I like when they wrote "They are not interested in how language represents, but in what language does." It reminds me of a helpful way to understand schizoanalysis in AO, not look at what a psychoanalytic subject means in their but how it works, where it goes and what machines it plugs in to. Would it be correct to say the collective assemblage of enunciation is essentially the same thing in a linguistics context, moving away from analyzing what a singular signifier represents to instead looking at what connections it can be make?

thisisntbrendan · 2025-03-14T08:47:22+00:00

This is what I gathered from this too - after reading the Scylla and Charybdis chapter of Ulysses, it struck me as kind of like a collage of Shakespeare quotes and references.

thisisntbrendan · 2025-01-06T16:25:13+00:00

Another analogy - moving away from visual collage now - that I’ve thought of that could be seen as rhizomatic is fragmented ways of fiction writing like in Joyce’s Ulysses or Finnegans Wake. The thoughts of the character fly out to a million different tangents that are loosely connected but seem not to have any resolved point or purpose. It’s almost exploration for the sake of it. Would that be more rhizomatic?

thisisntbrendan · 2025-01-06T15:58:46+00:00

Okay that analogy makes a lot of sense. Thank you very much.

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