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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Page 16
... expressed the absolute necessity of maintaining a musical code , and the desirability of not disturbing it for small ... expression is possible without ' a clear awareness of the structural conditions of communication'.28 We still grasp ...
... expressed the absolute necessity of maintaining a musical code , and the desirability of not disturbing it for small ... expression is possible without ' a clear awareness of the structural conditions of communication'.28 We still grasp ...
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... expressed memory of an outwardly cold girl to one of a young woman possessed of her own inner ' warm life ' . When Leontes realises that Hermione had an interior existence – when he grasps and contemplates her otherness - he at last re ...
... expressed memory of an outwardly cold girl to one of a young woman possessed of her own inner ' warm life ' . When Leontes realises that Hermione had an interior existence – when he grasps and contemplates her otherness - he at last re ...
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... expressed in the ' statue ' which invites passive contemplation yet promises active reunion . This rich con- tradiction is expressed fully in Perdita's role in the statue scene . She first asks , without ' superstition ' she says , that ...
... expressed in the ' statue ' which invites passive contemplation yet promises active reunion . This rich con- tradiction is expressed fully in Perdita's role in the statue scene . She first asks , without ' superstition ' she says , that ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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