Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - CHAP T2 - Anderson, Shakespeare and Donne: Generic Hybrids and the Cultural Imaginary SP - 133-40 ID - bbbc134 T1 - "Inserting Me: Some Instances of Predication and the Privation of the Private Self in Shakespeare and Donne" AU - Grossman, Marshall PY - 2013 DA - 2013 KW - self LA - English AB - Builds a context for analyzing "Will" in Sonnet 135 by discussing how Shakespeare and John Donne "share a profoundly linguistic discovery: the realization that the self can be possessed and confirmed only through and as acts of predication in which the immediacy of the self is sacrificed to the hegemony of its signifiers." Demonstrates this principle with readings from Hamlet. David Lee Miller's "Improper Nouns: A Response to Marshall Grossman" (141-47) focuses on Donne. ER -