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Some Facets of King Lear -

Some Facets of King Lear

Essays in Prismatic Criticism

Rosalie Colie, F.T. Flahiff (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
1974
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-0-8020-6279-6 (ISBN)
CHF 51,90 inkl. MwSt
The essays in this book – forming neither a casebook nor a 'perplex' – were written because their authors wanted to understand something specific about King Lear, one of Shakespeare's very complicated plays.
The image of the prism, with its multiple refractions, offers some sense of the inexhaustible variety of a work of art. Like a prism, King Lear is attractive; like a prism, it is a multiply shaped thing; like a prism, it is an object of admiration, as well as an instrument of analysis.

The essays in this book – forming neither a casebook nor a 'perplex' – were written because their authors wanted to understand something specific about this very complicated play. Throughout, the emphasis is on Shakespeare's consciousness of his craft, on his critical use of the materials, notions, and devices available to him – on the play (prism-like) as an instrument of analysis.

Although the different contributors have occasionally influenced one another's readings of the play, the essays were written independently; that they are so mutually supportive is the result of the play's central insistence on its own primary meaning, visible from whatever perspective a serious reader may take.

Rosalie L. Colie (1924-1972) studied at Vassar and Columbia and taught at Barnard, Oxford, Yale, Toronto, and Brown. At the time of her death in 1972 she was chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. F.T. Flahiff is a professor emeritus in the Department of English, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.1.1975
Reihe/Serie Heritage
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 228 mm
Gewicht 360 g
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Dramatik / Theater
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-8020-6279-2 / 0802062792
ISBN-13 978-0-8020-6279-6 / 9780802062796
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