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Page 182
... Perspectives of History " ( 1976 , rpt . 1978 ) , is a particularly indispensable reading which applies the anamor- phic perspective to the conflicting images of Richard's kingship . I will return to Gilman's ideas about perspective in ...
... Perspectives of History " ( 1976 , rpt . 1978 ) , is a particularly indispensable reading which applies the anamor- phic perspective to the conflicting images of Richard's kingship . I will return to Gilman's ideas about perspective in ...
Page 237
... perspective , ' mainly because the word can be taken to mean several different things beyond this basic definition . 17 In fact , Shakespeare's perspective image is considerably less ambiguous than it may seem ; at least when we read it ...
... perspective , ' mainly because the word can be taken to mean several different things beyond this basic definition . 17 In fact , Shakespeare's perspective image is considerably less ambiguous than it may seem ; at least when we read it ...
Page 258
... perspective ' metaphor as an anamorphic image , that is , as " an image whose perspective is systematically distorted or skewed " ( Gilman 1976 : 36 ) . Summarizing the previous com- mentary , Hallett Smith thus calls Shakespeare's ...
... perspective ' metaphor as an anamorphic image , that is , as " an image whose perspective is systematically distorted or skewed " ( Gilman 1976 : 36 ) . Summarizing the previous com- mentary , Hallett Smith thus calls Shakespeare's ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | iii |
THE DARK LANTERN | 45 |
THE REFORMED EYE | 107 |
Copyright | |
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