The Dark Lantern: A Historical Study of Sight in Shakespeare, Webster, and Middleton |
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Page ix
... Chapter five explores the way in which Webster's tragedies negotiate the collapse of the participational and unitive conception of sight , and the resultant drive towards a radical interiority or even the negation of the deceptive ...
... Chapter five explores the way in which Webster's tragedies negotiate the collapse of the participational and unitive conception of sight , and the resultant drive towards a radical interiority or even the negation of the deceptive ...
Page 65
... chapter . After this compressed account of the history and nature of ex- tramission and speculation - from their ... chapter , and others will be broached only in chapter two when we have explored the reformed distrust of the eye , it is ...
... chapter . After this compressed account of the history and nature of ex- tramission and speculation - from their ... chapter , and others will be broached only in chapter two when we have explored the reformed distrust of the eye , it is ...
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... chapter one , an inevitable question presents itself , which is embodied in the very title of Din- gley's text on divine optics : what points of contact can we establish between the reformed eye and its optical - philosophical ...
... chapter one , an inevitable question presents itself , which is embodied in the very title of Din- gley's text on divine optics : what points of contact can we establish between the reformed eye and its optical - philosophical ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | iii |
THE DARK LANTERN | 45 |
THE REFORMED EYE | 107 |
Copyright | |
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