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Not I - Kazuo Ishiguro and the Politics of Misrecognition' takes a closer look at how Ishiguro's narrators deal with their metaphorical 'parents', their literary ancestors from Hamlet to Alfred Prufrock. Ishiguro's narrators unwittingly express a metafictional concern about their existence in the shadows of English literary history and struggle with an imagined pressure to compete with iconic literary characters. This book traces their narrati...

John Locke's account of natural law, which forms the very basis of his political philosophy, has troubled many critics over time. The two works that shed light on Locke's theory are the early Essays on the Law of Nature and the Second Treatise of Government, published over twenty years later. Many critics have assumed that the early work presents a voluntarist approach to natural law and the second a rationalist approach, but the present analy...

For more than 400 years the tragedy of Hamlet has been among Shakespeare's most popular and most performed plays, abounding in timeless themes, such as crime and punishment, death and revenge, generation conflicts, spying, intrigues, false appearances, real and pretended madness.The present edition contains about one quarter of the complete text, showing all major characters in crucial dramatic situations and concentrating on the most memorabl...

The concept of the just war poses one of the most important ethical questions to date. Can war ever be justified and, if so, how? When is a cause of war proportional to its costs and who must be held responsible? The monograph Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare demonstrates that the necessary moral evaluation of these questions is not restricted to the philosophical moral and political discourse. This analysis of Shakespeare's plays, which fo...