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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... perhaps exasperatedly reductive , claim that ( unlike Ben Jonson ) Shakespeare entirely failed to grasp the idea of ' Art in the abstract ' , and showed no interest in the ' Italian Concept of “ Art ” ' . ? In my view The Winter's Tale ...
... perhaps exasperatedly reductive , claim that ( unlike Ben Jonson ) Shakespeare entirely failed to grasp the idea of ' Art in the abstract ' , and showed no interest in the ' Italian Concept of “ Art ” ' . ? In my view The Winter's Tale ...
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... Perhaps we should suspect that this courtiers wit , running after self - conscious verbal para- doxes , is what mainly hampers his ability to comprehend Wotton's emotional Neighbors and Consiners in Arte . Because he seeks paradox . he ...
... Perhaps we should suspect that this courtiers wit , running after self - conscious verbal para- doxes , is what mainly hampers his ability to comprehend Wotton's emotional Neighbors and Consiners in Arte . Because he seeks paradox . he ...
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... Perhaps most to our point is Peterson's idea that in the Shakespearian Romances recurrence is linked to occasion : ' The patient man seizes the recurring occasion , redeeming himself and the past and completing the restorative pattern ...
... Perhaps most to our point is Peterson's idea that in the Shakespearian Romances recurrence is linked to occasion : ' The patient man seizes the recurring occasion , redeeming himself and the past and completing the restorative pattern ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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