Art and Illusion in The Winter's TaleManchester University Press, 1994 - 283 pages This 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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... Tale ' , ' Perdita's Tale ' , and so forth . But there also will be chapters titled ' The Statue's Tale ' and ' Julio's Tale ' , centred on ' figures ' not represented mimetically . This organisation means to challenge newish ...
... Tale ' , ' Perdita's Tale ' , and so forth . But there also will be chapters titled ' The Statue's Tale ' and ' Julio's Tale ' , centred on ' figures ' not represented mimetically . This organisation means to challenge newish ...
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... Tale . But the matters uncovered will immediately corroborate the play's concerns with extremely topical cultural issues , and later add weight to a theory that The Winter's Tale contains a complex and deliberate treatment of feigning ...
... Tale . But the matters uncovered will immediately corroborate the play's concerns with extremely topical cultural issues , and later add weight to a theory that The Winter's Tale contains a complex and deliberate treatment of feigning ...
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... Tale he gently parodied enthusiastic court tastes for Italian sculpture . For , as we have seen , soon after Ben Jonson's Epicoene denigrated the mere citizen taste for the painted statues adorning the brand - new Aldgate of London ...
... Tale he gently parodied enthusiastic court tastes for Italian sculpture . For , as we have seen , soon after Ben Jonson's Epicoene denigrated the mere citizen taste for the painted statues adorning the brand - new Aldgate of London ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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