Browsing by Subject "Criticism and interpretation"
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Aeschylus' Erinyes: Tragedy's Muses
The over-arching theme of Aeschylus' trilogy, the Oresteia, is the emergence of law from vengeance, but does the author also address the nature of tragedy through an innovative treatment of song and the Erinyes? Peter ... -
A Break From Reality: Disturbing Dysfunctions & Making Sense of the Senseless Through the Character of Clelia Walgrave in Larry Shue's The Nerd
The Nerd, by Larry Shue, is a nonsensical take on conventions of domestic comedy in theater. This work examines the precursors and the frequently unfortunate aftermath of living life out of balance. Shue's textured precepts ... -
Curious Reversals and Marvelous Wounds: Metamorphosis and Identity in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber
Though The Bloody Chamber undeniably supports a feminist reading, ultimately her vision of the wise child encompasses both sexes and provides a meeting ground between them. Elaine Showalter insists that in '"the purest ... -
Empathetic Hardy: bounded, ambassadorial, and broadcast strategies of narrative empathy
(Final published version of article copyrighted by Duke University Press, 2011)Pursuing my earlier theory of strategic narrative empathy, this essay shows Thomas Hardy's bounded strategic empathy for his fictional creations, Wessex countrymen and women; his ambassadorial strategic empathy for animals ... -
"The New Poetic Power": The Imaginative Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Traditional interpretors of literature might perceive little justification for discussing the poetry of the English Romanticist Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who lived from 1772-1834, in conjunction with that of the German ...