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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Page 87
... finds himself bound . He does so because , as Hawthorne tells the reader , he is too weak for the more heroic action to endure stoically his tribulation or to fling it off defiantly , as does Hester when " she cast [ s ] away the ...
... finds himself bound . He does so because , as Hawthorne tells the reader , he is too weak for the more heroic action to endure stoically his tribulation or to fling it off defiantly , as does Hester when " she cast [ s ] away the ...
Page 92
... finds himself " spliced " to the latter through the " bridegroom " clasp in the huge marital bed of Peter Coffin . Leslie Fiedler calls that figurative union an heirogamous , an innocent homosexual union between the white American ...
... finds himself " spliced " to the latter through the " bridegroom " clasp in the huge marital bed of Peter Coffin . Leslie Fiedler calls that figurative union an heirogamous , an innocent homosexual union between the white American ...
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... find your- self " ( 22 ) . What Marlow finds is that he is not only kin to the monstrously free savage , but also to the similarly free Kurtz , who uses his freedom to kick himself loose of the earth and to succumb to the temptations to ...
... find your- self " ( 22 ) . What Marlow finds is that he is not only kin to the monstrously free savage , but also to the similarly free Kurtz , who uses his freedom to kick himself loose of the earth and to succumb to the temptations to ...
Contents
The Nature of Tragic Bondage | 11 |
In Greek Tragedy | 25 |
In Hamlet | 42 |
Copyright | |
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