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1 online resource |
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Hamlet and Auerbach / Peter Holland -- "Scenes from the life of one who is suited for nothing": Shakespeare and the question of mimesis / Roger Starling -- "'Tis in reversion that I do possess": speculation and destination in Richard II / Vance Adair -- Platonism and bathos in Shakespeare and other early modern drama / Gabriel Egan -- "Pluck but his name out of his heart": a Caesarean cross-section / Paul Innes -- "Bananas on a mango tree": colonial mimesis, hybridity and modern Indian theatre / Poonam Trivedi -- Court masque and the (re)production of aristocratic identity / Monika Smialkowska -- The distorting mirror: theatrical mimesis on the early modern transvestite stage / Christian Billing -- Mimesis, resistance and iconoclasm: resituating The revenger's tragedy / Adrian Streete -- "There must be something heard": John Donne's aural universe / Jonathan Holmes |
| Summary |
"Despite these theoretical advances, in the Anglo-American critical tradition the assumption that mimesis stands for an epistemologically transparent 'reflection of reality' remains almost unconsciously ingrained in much critical discourse. In this respect, the shadow cast by Erich Auerbach's seminal study Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (first published half a century ago) is a long one. It is one of the aims of this volume to refigure this Auerbachian hegemony by re-focussing, as in fact Auerbach himself did, on the irreducibility of the mimetic as a philosophical idea." |
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"A wide-ranging collection by an exciting group of scholars, this is a timely and impressive contribution to a topic that, since Plato, has continued to perplex and stimulate philosophers and literary scholars alike."--Jacket |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Mimesis in literature.
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Drama.
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Drama
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plays (performing arts compositions)
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drama (literary genre)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Drama
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English literature -- Early modern
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Mimesis in literature
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Mimesis
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Literatur
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Englisch.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Holmes, Jonathan.
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Streete, Adrian.
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| ISBN |
9781905313754 |
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1905313756 |
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