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Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?
E-bok, 2001
696 kr
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Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering or death? Is it because we see horrific matter controlled by majestic art? Or because tragedy actually reaches out to the dark side of human nature? A. D. Nuttall''s wide-ranging, …
Openings
Narrative Beginnings from the Epic to the Novel
Inbunden, 1992
1240 kr
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What is the difference between a natural beginning and the beginning of a story? Some deny that there are any beginnings in nature, except perhaps for the origin of the universe itself, suggesting that elsewhere we have only a continuum of events, into which beginnings are variously `read' by …
Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?
Häftad, 2001
1113 kr
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Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering or death? Is it because we see horrific matter controlled by majestic art? Or because tragedy actually reaches out to the dark side of human nature? A. D. Nuttall's wide-ranging, …
New Mimesis
Shakespeare and the Representation of Reality
Häftad, 2007
481 kr
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In pursuit of a powerful, common-sense argument about realism, renowned scholar A. D. Nuttall discusses English eighteenth-century and French neo-classical conceptions of realism, and considers Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and both parts of King Henry IV as a …
Two Concepts of Allegory
A Study of Shakespeare's The Tempest and the Logic of Allegorical Expression
Häftad, 2007
439 kr
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The fundamental subject of A. D. Nuttall’s bold and daring first book, Two Concepts of Allegory, is a particular habit of thought—the practice of thinking about universals as though they were concrete things. His study takes the form of an inquiry into certain conceptual questions raised, in the …
Shakespeare the Thinker
Häftad, 2008
212 kr
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"A close reading of the plays that tries to map the creases and folds in Shakespeare's mysterious, elusive brain."— New York Times Book ReviewA. D. Nuttall’s study of Shakespeare’s intellectual preoccupations is a literary tour de force and comes to crown the distinguished career of a Shakespeare …
Dead from the Waist Down
Scholars and Scholarship in Literature and the Popular Imagination
Häftad, 2011
502 kr
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At the end of the sixteenth century, scholars and intellectuals were seen as Faustian magicians, dangerous and sexy. By the nineteenth century, they were perceived as dusty and dried up, “dead from the waist down,” as Browning so wickedly put it. In this erudite and entertaining book, a renowned …
Stoic in Love
Selected Essays On Literature And Ideas
Inbunden, 1989
961 kr
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Contents: Two Unassimilable Men; Hamlet:^R Conversations with the dead; Measure for Measure:^R The bed-trick; Shallow's Orchard, Adam's Garden; The Stoic in Love; Fishes in the Trees; Causal Dum: A note on^R Aeneid, vi. 585-6; Ovid Immoralised: The method of wit in Marvell's 'The Garden'; Gulliver …
