When Hamlet complains that Guildenstern 'would pluck out the heart of [his] mystery', he imagines an encounter that recurs insistently in the discourses of early modern England. The struggle by one man to discover the secrets in another's heart is rehearsed not only in plays but…
When Hamlet complains that Guildenstern 'would pluck out the heart of [his] mystery, ' he imagines an encounter that recurs insistently in the discourses of early modern England. The struggle by one man to discover the secrets in another's heart is rehearsed not only in plays bu…
When Hamlet complains that Guildenstern 'would pluck out the heart of [his] mystery', he imagines an encounter that recurs insistently in the discourses of early modern England. The struggle by one man to discover the secrets in another's heart is rehearsed not only in plays but…
1. Dialectics of secrecy and disclosure: the sociology and the narratology of secrecy -- 2. Lost in Labassecour : Villette and the privatization of secrecy -- 3. Selfishness and secrecy in the "howling wilderness": Thackeray's Vanity fair -- 4. Madness and class conflicts : Lady…
Introduction: the paradox of duplicity -- Dialectics of secrecy and disclosure: the sociology and the narratology of secrecy -- Lost in Labassecour: Villette and the privatization of secrecy -- Selfishness and secrecy in the "howling wilderness": Thackeray's Vanity fair -- Madne…