The Net of Nemesis: Studies in Tragic Bond/ageSusquehanna 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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... connections to kin . Lévi - Strauss discovers two complexes of opposing images in the myth : the first is the opposition of ... connection to the earth and to family ; killing kin and earth monsters symbolizes primitive man's becom- ing ...
... connections to kin . Lévi - Strauss discovers two complexes of opposing images in the myth : the first is the opposition of ... connection to the earth and to family ; killing kin and earth monsters symbolizes primitive man's becom- ing ...
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... connection is tensive : part of him wishes to transcend those chthonic connections in order to establish an independent self , but another part , in the trying conditions of reality , needs to return to them . Thus , in Hardy's fiction ...
... connection is tensive : part of him wishes to transcend those chthonic connections in order to establish an independent self , but another part , in the trying conditions of reality , needs to return to them . Thus , in Hardy's fiction ...
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... connection and constraint , can be imagined metaphorically as a pavan , a stately dance , in which each performer is tied to the other three by a gossamer chiffon , which connects or restricts , but also gives form to , their movement ...
... connection and constraint , can be imagined metaphorically as a pavan , a stately dance , in which each performer is tied to the other three by a gossamer chiffon , which connects or restricts , but also gives form to , their movement ...
Contents
The Nature of Tragic Bondage | 11 |
In Greek Tragedy | 25 |
In Hamlet | 42 |
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Absalom Adam Aeschylus agon Ahab Angel Antigone banquet Banquo becomes binds bond bound boundaries brother Casterbridge chthonic Claudius Clytie Creon crime against kinship d'Urbervilles daughter death defilement deracination Dimmesdale disinheritance edition Elizabeth Jane Farfrae fate father Faulkner figure Freud Greek tragedy Hamlet hand Hardy heart of darkness Hegel Henchard Henry Hereafter all references Hester Hippolytus human individual ironically Isabel Ishmael Jason Jean-Pierre Vernant Judith killing King Kurtz Lacan Laertes Lear leitmotif Lucetta Madame Merle man's manifestation Marlow marriage Mayor of Casterbridge Medea Moby Dick mother myth nature necessity negativa novel Oedipus Ophelia Osmond Prometheus protagonist punishment Ralph relationship Satan scarlet letter Shakespeare social society suffering suggests Sutpen symbol T. S. Eliot Tess Tess's thereby things Thomas Sutpen threads tion tragic bond/age tragic hero trans transcendence trope of tragic variation Vernant via negativa violation W. W. Norton weaving whale woman word York