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. |
Contents
The Nature of Tragic Bondage | 11 |
In Greek Tragedy | 25 |
In Hamlet | 42 |
In King Lear | 55 |
In Macbeth | 64 |
In Paradise Lost | 73 |
In The Scarlet Letter | 83 |
In Moby Dick | 91 |
In Tess of the dUrbervilles | 111 |
In The Portrait of a Lady | 121 |
In Heart of Darkness | 132 |
In Absalom Absalom | 141 |
The Tragedy of Bondage | 154 |
Notes | 173 |
Bibliography | 180 |
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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 edited 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 King Kurtz Lacan Laertes Lear leitmotif Lucetta Madame Merle man's manifestation Marlow marriage Mayor of Casterbridge Medea Moby Dick mother Myth and Tragedy nature necessity negativa novel Oedipus Osmond Prometheus protagonist punishment Ralph relationship Satan scarlet letter Shakespeare social society Steiner suffering suggests Sutpen symbol T. S. Eliot Tess thereby things Thomas Sutpen threads tion tragic bond/age tragic hero trans transcendence trope of tragic variation Vernant violation W. W. Norton weaving whale woman word York