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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... figure . Like much vocabulary related to the arts , it has not been applied consistently over time . Sometimes it has been used to refer to any especially extended or vivid verbal description of the visual realm , 38 as in George ...
... figure . Like much vocabulary related to the arts , it has not been applied consistently over time . Sometimes it has been used to refer to any especially extended or vivid verbal description of the visual realm , 38 as in George ...
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... figure forth confused passion , Hauing no tables for the Worlds receipt , With few parts of a few , doth many fashion . Who then would figure Worthinesse disgraced , Nature and Wit imprisoned , or sterued , Kindnesse a scorne , and ...
... figure forth confused passion , Hauing no tables for the Worlds receipt , With few parts of a few , doth many fashion . Who then would figure Worthinesse disgraced , Nature and Wit imprisoned , or sterued , Kindnesse a scorne , and ...
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B. J. Sokol. figure . That figure is extremely still , and yet very alive ; her eyes and expression combine knowingness with acceptance , reserve with directness , and vitality with solidity . She is wearing a very elaborate dress with a ...
B. J. Sokol. figure . That figure is extremely still , and yet very alive ; her eyes and expression combine knowingness with acceptance , reserve with directness , and vitality with solidity . She is wearing a very elaborate dress with a ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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