Art and Illusion in The Winter's TaleThis work treats a single Shakespeare play from a number of perspectives. The author combines insights from contemporary psychology with art, social and stage histories to challenge the limits of current positivist critical theories. The book also has a central theme: how the dark side of art and illusion must be represented in order to establish the redemptive pattern which The Winter's Tale shares with Shakespeare's other late tragi-comedies. |
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Page 28
... present sort of making of ' an analogy between literary and representational styles ' carries dangers and rewards . Conflation is an ever - present temptation when addressing the paradoxical , perhaps contrapuntal self - unity of The ...
... present sort of making of ' an analogy between literary and representational styles ' carries dangers and rewards . Conflation is an ever - present temptation when addressing the paradoxical , perhaps contrapuntal self - unity of The ...
Page 35
... present distinctions . His intense memory of old frus- trations in particular obliterates the present efforts of Hermione to get him and others to recall the past happily . These efforts , begin- ning with her asking the aggrieved ...
... present distinctions . His intense memory of old frus- trations in particular obliterates the present efforts of Hermione to get him and others to recall the past happily . These efforts , begin- ning with her asking the aggrieved ...
Page 246
... present because according to an old ' rustic or farmer's calendar ' he was a god of May or spring , together with Flora . This calendral connection is said to have been ' obscured ' from scholars by the Julian reform ' . I do not know ...
... present because according to an old ' rustic or farmer's calendar ' he was a god of May or spring , together with Flora . This calendral connection is said to have been ' obscured ' from scholars by the Julian reform ' . I do not know ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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