Shakespearean representation : mimesis and modernity in Elizabethan tragedy /
We are often told that Shakespeare is our contemporary, yet we insist just as often on the Elizabethan quality of his work as it reflects a culture remote from our own. Beginning with this paradox, Howard Felperin explores the question of modernity in literature. He directs his attention toward seve...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
1977.
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| Series: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Online Access: | Available via EBSCO eBook Collection |
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| Summary: | We are often told that Shakespeare is our contemporary, yet we insist just as often on the Elizabethan quality of his work as it reflects a culture remote from our own. Beginning with this paradox, Howard Felperin explores the question of modernity in literature. He directs his attention toward several older poets and examines Shakespeare in particular to show how literary modernity depends, not on chronological considerations, but on the process of mimesis, or imitation, that art has traditionally claimed for itself. In analyzing Shakespeare's major tragedies, Professor Felperin notes that. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (212 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400868292 1400868297 9780691614625 9780691063416 |