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... Lucrece In more ways than one , The Rape of Lucrece takes over where Venus and Adonis ends : with a turn towards tragedy , with the split between semblance and its fatal undercurrent of violence and deceit , and with a strong ...
... Lucrece In more ways than one , The Rape of Lucrece takes over where Venus and Adonis ends : with a turn towards tragedy , with the split between semblance and its fatal undercurrent of violence and deceit , and with a strong ...
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... Lucrece's revised perception of the painting has , as Siemon observes , replaced universal similitude or likeness with universal deceit . By now , her involvement with the painting becomes so intense that she attacks it ; enraged , she ...
... Lucrece's revised perception of the painting has , as Siemon observes , replaced universal similitude or likeness with universal deceit . By now , her involvement with the painting becomes so intense that she attacks it ; enraged , she ...
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... Lucrece combines these perspectives - facial heraldry and the importance of her hus- band's honour - into a single , self - effacing image : " O unseen shame , invisible disgrace ! O unfelt sore , crest - wounding private scar ...
... Lucrece combines these perspectives - facial heraldry and the importance of her hus- band's honour - into a single , self - effacing image : " O unseen shame , invisible disgrace ! O unfelt sore , crest - wounding private scar ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | iii |
THE DARK LANTERN | 45 |
THE REFORMED EYE | 107 |
Copyright | |
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