Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Introduction: Iconic and dynamic -- Dramatic transition -- Zara -- Odes -- King Lear -- Dramatic character -- Coda |
Summary |
"Introduction - Iconic and Dynamic What is transition? Transition names a process of change between objects whose properties define that transition: emotions, chords, gradients, colours, genders.1 It also names the moment, long or brief, in which such transformation occurs. To identify a transition is thus to acknowledge both the dynamic quality of a process of change and the iconic quality of a rich and recognizable moment. Further, the identification of transition appears to grant meaning: this came from that, or that must lead to this; here was the moment when everything was possible, or there was the point of no return. As a tool for the making of meaning, criticism has relied upon transition's simultaneous invocation of the iconic and the dynamic. This reliance is particularly visible in eighteenth-century writing about the theatre but is by no means limited to it"-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
Subject |
English drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Emotions in literature.
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Transition (Rhetoric)
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English drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism
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Acting -- History -- 18th century
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Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Dramatic criticism
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Theater
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2021026928 |
ISBN |
9781108890847 |
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1108890849 |
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9781108880695 |
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110888069X |
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