The Soul of Athens: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's DreamLexington Books, 2003 - 211 pagina's The Soul of Athens: Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" studies Shakespeare's portrayal of the founding of Athens through a close reading of one of the Bard's most memorable comedies. Coupling careful attention to detail with interpretive breadth, The Soul of Athens examines the nature of love, the natural doubleness of human thinking and the ambiguous relation of image and reality, as well as patriarchy and democracy, and heroic and moral virtue. |
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... the imagi- nation . As Theseus disparagingly observes , both poetry and love involve seeing or imagining what is absent ( 5.1.4-22 ) . Art , particularly dramatic poetry , involves impersonation ( " [ T ] ell. 2 Introduction.
... the imagi- nation . As Theseus disparagingly observes , both poetry and love involve seeing or imagining what is absent ( 5.1.4-22 ) . Art , particularly dramatic poetry , involves impersonation ( " [ T ] ell. 2 Introduction.
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... imagination is especially clear in art , where , contrary to what the artisans fear , imitations announce their simultaneous reality and unreality.12 They are what they are not and are not what they are : Bottom is and is not Pyra- mus ...
... imagination is especially clear in art , where , contrary to what the artisans fear , imitations announce their simultaneous reality and unreality.12 They are what they are not and are not what they are : Bottom is and is not Pyra- mus ...
Pagina 4
... imagination while the other shows no trace of imagination at all , in the end the lover's view of his beloved at least partly matches the players ' view of their art . The close connections between art and love , reason and passion ...
... imagination while the other shows no trace of imagination at all , in the end the lover's view of his beloved at least partly matches the players ' view of their art . The close connections between art and love , reason and passion ...
Pagina 7
... imagination , for the young lovers it is primarily looking at rather than being with the beloved . Love is con- nected more to sight than to touch . Oberon's love juice is only a comic exag- geration of the intimate tie . Hermia , who ...
... imagination , for the young lovers it is primarily looking at rather than being with the beloved . Love is con- nected more to sight than to touch . Oberon's love juice is only a comic exag- geration of the intimate tie . Hermia , who ...
Pagina 8
... imagination is illusory . Accordingly , just as the young lovers tend to con- fuse love and letters , so , too , does Theseus , but with the opposite import . For him , the resemblance among " [ t ] he lover , the lunatic , and the poet ...
... imagination is illusory . Accordingly , just as the young lovers tend to con- fuse love and letters , so , too , does Theseus , but with the opposite import . For him , the resemblance among " [ t ] he lover , the lunatic , and the poet ...
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