Shakespeare's Agonistic Comedy: Poetics, Analysis, CriticismFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1993 - 302 頁 In one respect, the purpose of this book is to define the characteristics and to map the canon of Shakespeare's agonistic comedy; in other words, to provide a poetics. Such a task has its own importance and preliminary value if fundamental patterns and functions have not been recognized as such in the critical analysis of a body of texts. Part I of Shakespeare's Agonistic Comedy identifies the structural characteristics of the provisionally outlined canon, focuses on apparently borderline cases (Petruchio and Katherina, Benedick and Beatrice, Jaques and Don John, as well as that of Love's Labour's Lost) in order to define the canon more precisely, defines the distinctive perspective generated by agonistic comedy, and examines the thematic and referential patterns that may appear prima facie to be characteristic of this comedy: violence and revenge. Throughout this section dealing with poetics, Beiner emphasizes that agonistic comedy is capable of being self-complete and independent and yet in Shakespearean comedy it never generates an entire play; nor does it appear in every play from Errors to Twelfth Night. A poetics of Shakespeare's agonistic comedy is necessarily related to the wider field of a poetics of Shakespearean comedy, which in turn is related to the even wider area of comic traditions. |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 59 筆
第 10 頁
... seen in wider diachronic parameters ) . The working hypothesis points provisionally to a distinctive group of texts ( with The Merry Wives , Merchant , and Twelfth Night as its nucleus ) for the poetics . Then a more precise and ...
... seen in wider diachronic parameters ) . The working hypothesis points provisionally to a distinctive group of texts ( with The Merry Wives , Merchant , and Twelfth Night as its nucleus ) for the poetics . Then a more precise and ...
第 17 頁
... seen in terms of the informing comic strategy . Indeed , they have often been at the center of controversies of interpretation and evaluation ( with some confusion , as I point out , between the two activities ) .12 What has been ...
... seen in terms of the informing comic strategy . Indeed , they have often been at the center of controversies of interpretation and evaluation ( with some confusion , as I point out , between the two activities ) .12 What has been ...
第 28 頁
... seen ( in structuralist terms ) as a binary relationship or , in dialectical terms , as thesis and antithesis . For our investi- gation this binary axis is cardinal in order to distinguish and define the agon , but it is not the only ...
... seen ( in structuralist terms ) as a binary relationship or , in dialectical terms , as thesis and antithesis . For our investi- gation this binary axis is cardinal in order to distinguish and define the agon , but it is not the only ...
第 29 頁
... seen retrospectively as a spatial construct ) , so that we can note the structural difference . In each of the three plays we have mentioned , it becomes clear to the audience from an early point ( long before the ending provides the ...
... seen retrospectively as a spatial construct ) , so that we can note the structural difference . In each of the three plays we have mentioned , it becomes clear to the audience from an early point ( long before the ending provides the ...
第 32 頁
... seen as fundamental to their character ( though they are not unidimensional " humours " ) , a radical reform — a romance metamorphosis — is out of the question , in spite of the license provided by the genre of comedy and the mode of ...
... seen as fundamental to their character ( though they are not unidimensional " humours " ) , a radical reform — a romance metamorphosis — is out of the question , in spite of the license provided by the genre of comedy and the mode of ...
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Semiagon and the Comedy of Love Clarifying the Boundary | 54 |
The Agonistic Perspective ReaderSpectator Response | 77 |
Violence in the Comedy of Love Errors to Twelfth Night Referential and Thematic Patterns | 88 |
Comic Revenge and Agons Referential and Thematic Patterns Continued | 118 |
The Major Texts | 137 |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | 139 |
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