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 70
... scene . Although I agree the scene portrays the educative use of projec- tion , I do not think that an idea of transcendence is appropriate to this scene . Psychodynamic investigations indicate that the phantasies that allow educative ...
... scene . Although I agree the scene portrays the educative use of projec- tion , I do not think that an idea of transcendence is appropriate to this scene . Psychodynamic investigations indicate that the phantasies that allow educative ...
Page 118
... scene . This scene has often been read mythically , philosophically , as containing a charming idyll , as symbolising life - renewing forces , or even anthro- pologically . But it has rarely been seen as containing a disturbing account ...
... scene . This scene has often been read mythically , philosophically , as containing a charming idyll , as symbolising life - renewing forces , or even anthro- pologically . But it has rarely been seen as containing a disturbing account ...
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... scene i show personal anxiety and insecurity arising from the withholding of royal libido.23 In Measure for Measure the same topic goes unnoted by individual characters although it is conveyed through the central structural pattern of ...
... scene i show personal anxiety and insecurity arising from the withholding of royal libido.23 In Measure for Measure the same topic goes unnoted by individual characters although it is conveyed through the central structural pattern of ...
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Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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