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Page 236
... final ( and highly unsettling ) couplet aside for a while and concentrate on the complexities of these three stanzas , where a series of multiple mirrorings and intersecting visual rays confuse the roles of perceiver and perceived . It ...
... final ( and highly unsettling ) couplet aside for a while and concentrate on the complexities of these three stanzas , where a series of multiple mirrorings and intersecting visual rays confuse the roles of perceiver and perceived . It ...
Page 277
... final line . It is as if Achilles ought to see a different Ajax than the one he sees , perhaps an essential Ajax who is not subject to the naked eye , but Thersites gleefully withdraws any sense of what this ' true ' Ajax might be . The ...
... final line . It is as if Achilles ought to see a different Ajax than the one he sees , perhaps an essential Ajax who is not subject to the naked eye , but Thersites gleefully withdraws any sense of what this ' true ' Ajax might be . The ...
Page 354
... final scene of Lear seems closely related to Scott McMillin's suggestion that the later Shakespeare was deeply interested in " a problem which underlies all theatrical representation . This is the problem of making manifest and acces ...
... final scene of Lear seems closely related to Scott McMillin's suggestion that the later Shakespeare was deeply interested in " a problem which underlies all theatrical representation . This is the problem of making manifest and acces ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | iii |
THE DARK LANTERN | 45 |
THE REFORMED EYE | 107 |
Copyright | |
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