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 38
... sort of kairos . But I will argue that kairos appears in The Win- ter's Tale in a way that is resolutely joined to the finite , not to the infinite . 25 In this I agree with D. L. Peterson , who interpreted a renewed Renaissance ...
... sort of kairos . But I will argue that kairos appears in The Win- ter's Tale in a way that is resolutely joined to the finite , not to the infinite . 25 In this I agree with D. L. Peterson , who interpreted a renewed Renaissance ...
Page 65
... sort of audience ? ' , and what sort of scholarship ? But why should we care if The Winter's Tale alluded to an up - to- the - minute Jacobean aesthetic questioning of painted statues ? Does the attempt to discover concerns common to ...
... sort of audience ? ' , and what sort of scholarship ? But why should we care if The Winter's Tale alluded to an up - to- the - minute Jacobean aesthetic questioning of painted statues ? Does the attempt to discover concerns common to ...
Page 223
... sort of view in Tillyard , 1938 , p . 43 , in which the Bohemian countryside is ' the cleanest and most elegant symbol of the new life into which the old horrors are to be transmuted ' . 6 Studing , 1987 , argues that the Bohemian ...
... sort of view in Tillyard , 1938 , p . 43 , in which the Bohemian countryside is ' the cleanest and most elegant symbol of the new life into which the old horrors are to be transmuted ' . 6 Studing , 1987 , argues that the Bohemian ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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