William Shakespeare, King LearSusan Bruce Columbia University Press, 1998 - 192 sayfa This Critical Guide helps students sift through and make sense of nearly three centuries of Lear criticism, providing insight into different assessments of the play's merit and its place within Shakespeare's work and the canon of English literature. Highlights include excerpts from the neoclassical and Romantic receptions of King Lear -- material from John Dryden, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Victor Hugo -- and a discussion of recent and current trends in criticism of the play. |
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... literary merit of King Lear and its position in the canon , and links this debate to recent editorial questions about the nature of the text itself , and its authority in early modern versions . CHAPTER ONE Neo - Classicism 15 The ...
... literary merit of King Lear and its position in the canon , and links this debate to recent editorial questions about the nature of the text itself , and its authority in early modern versions . CHAPTER ONE Neo - Classicism 15 The ...
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... literary artist , unequalled by any other writer in his ability to manipulate his audience to sympathise with his hero , in the ' charms ' of his ' sentiments ' and ' diction ' , and in his ' knowledge ' of ' nature ' . Tolstoy , by ...
... literary artist , unequalled by any other writer in his ability to manipulate his audience to sympathise with his hero , in the ' charms ' of his ' sentiments ' and ' diction ' , and in his ' knowledge ' of ' nature ' . Tolstoy , by ...
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... literary value . For perhaps one of the most notable differ- ences between contemporary literary criticism and almost all of the critical writing which precedes it is that practising literary critics today almost never address the ...
... literary value . For perhaps one of the most notable differ- ences between contemporary literary criticism and almost all of the critical writing which precedes it is that practising literary critics today almost never address the ...
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... literary theory that has occurred over the last two or three decades , to which we will return in the final chapter of this book . Critics writing on Shakespeare today , then , do not generally extol his virtues as they did prior to the ...
... literary theory that has occurred over the last two or three decades , to which we will return in the final chapter of this book . Critics writing on Shakespeare today , then , do not generally extol his virtues as they did prior to the ...
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... literary culture , to expect , as did Tolstoy , to find it a masterpiece . Unthinking adherence to a dogma of adulation is a bad thing in literary study , as it is in any other walk of life . But adherence to a dogma of scorn is equally ...
... literary culture , to expect , as did Tolstoy , to find it a masterpiece . Unthinking adherence to a dogma of adulation is a bad thing in literary study , as it is in any other walk of life . But adherence to a dogma of scorn is equally ...
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NeoClassicism | 15 |
Romanticism | 48 |
Realism | 83 |
From Christianity to Chaos | 116 |
Contemporary Criticism of King Lear | 149 |
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