The Net of Nemesis: Studies in Tragic Bond/age

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Susquehanna University Press, 2000 - 194 pages
The Net of Nemesis examines the trope of tragic bond/age, in which humanity is the beneficiary of bonds that nurture and unite and the victim of bondage that confines and restrains. Manifestations of the trope in Greek and Shakespearean tragedy, Miltonic epic, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction repeat and vary the trope's central symbol of the net and other, related leitmotifs and demonstrate that such orchestration resolves the conflict between bonds and bond/age and informs the catharsis and transcendence essential to tragedy.

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The Nature of Tragic Bondage
11
In Greek Tragedy
25
In Hamlet
42
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