A Midsummer Night's Dream: Critical EssaysDorothea Kehler This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory. |
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... traditional subjects and approaches-——textual criticism and literary allusion-as a postmodernist. In his “Antique Fables, Fairy Toys: Elisions, Allusion, and Translation in A Midsummer Night's Dream,” Moisan relates allusion and ...
... traditional subjects and approaches-——textual criticism and literary allusion-as a postmodernist. In his “Antique Fables, Fairy Toys: Elisions, Allusion, and Translation in A Midsummer Night's Dream,” Moisan relates allusion and ...
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... traditional readings. R.A. Zimbardo (1970) defends imagination as the only lens through which ultimate reality can be perceived. “[P]ermanence in mutability” symbolized by the moon, and “discordia concors” (36) are basic to the play's ...
... traditional readings. R.A. Zimbardo (1970) defends imagination as the only lens through which ultimate reality can be perceived. “[P]ermanence in mutability” symbolized by the moon, and “discordia concors” (36) are basic to the play's ...
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... traditional rites of passage trigger development within the individual and the society. Theseus, detached from myth (imagination), rules harshly. The lovers flee from his structure to the communitas of the woods: a “spontaneous ...
... traditional rites of passage trigger development within the individual and the society. Theseus, detached from myth (imagination), rules harshly. The lovers flee from his structure to the communitas of the woods: a “spontaneous ...
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