Literary Criticism: A Short History. Classical and neo-classical criticism, Volume 1University of Chicago P., 1978 - 336 pages |
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Page 37
... character or of action in drama , and they are doubtless many - there can be no basic consideration of character and action separately . Or , one might say , plot without character is a puzzle , as in a detective story ; character ...
... character or of action in drama , and they are doubtless many - there can be no basic consideration of character and action separately . Or , one might say , plot without character is a puzzle , as in a detective story ; character ...
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... character and conduct . -L . J. Potts , Comedy , pp . 46-7 Greek tragedy is the tragedy of necessity : i.e. , the feeling aroused in the spectator is " What a pity it had to be this way " ; Christian tragedy is the trag- edy of ...
... character and conduct . -L . J. Potts , Comedy , pp . 46-7 Greek tragedy is the tragedy of necessity : i.e. , the feeling aroused in the spectator is " What a pity it had to be this way " ; Christian tragedy is the trag- edy of ...
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... character of Caliban ( Preface to Troilus and Cressida , Ker I , 219 ) is a classic spot of 17th - century Shakespeare criticism . And the effort to reconcile Falstaff's complexity with the canon of consistency in character- drawing ( I ...
... character of Caliban ( Preface to Troilus and Cressida , Ker I , 219 ) is a classic spot of 17th - century Shakespeare criticism . And the effort to reconcile Falstaff's complexity with the canon of consistency in character- drawing ( I ...
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Socrates and the Rhapsode PAGE | 3 |
The Internal Focus 555 | 16 |
Poetry as Structure | 21 |
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