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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... follow Jacques Lacan , rejects all psychological interpretations of Leontes ' jealousy in The Winter's Tale.1 It is obvious , as this critic says , that ' psychoanalytic theory simply cannot provide us 26 Art and illusion in The ...
... follow Jacques Lacan , rejects all psychological interpretations of Leontes ' jealousy in The Winter's Tale.1 It is obvious , as this critic says , that ' psychoanalytic theory simply cannot provide us 26 Art and illusion in The ...
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... follow next in fre- quency with 49 instances . Further down the scale comes ' son ' with 40 , ' daughter ' with 32 , ' brother ' with 20 and ' mother ' with 13 in- stances . These statistics are crude , but help to confirm that the ...
... follow next in fre- quency with 49 instances . Further down the scale comes ' son ' with 40 , ' daughter ' with 32 , ' brother ' with 20 and ' mother ' with 13 in- stances . These statistics are crude , but help to confirm that the ...
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... follow it , and undoes description to do it . ( 40– 59. my italics ) Soon after , in a wildly lame attempt to describe Paulina's reaction to learning in one moment of her husband's death and Perdita's salvation , this Gentleman seems to ...
... follow it , and undoes description to do it . ( 40– 59. my italics ) Soon after , in a wildly lame attempt to describe Paulina's reaction to learning in one moment of her husband's death and Perdita's salvation , this Gentleman seems to ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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