Format:
xxiii, 254 S.
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Ill.
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23 cm
ISBN:
9780761841371
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0761841377
Content:
"Shakespeare's Spiral aims to explore a figure forgotten in the dramatic texts of Shakespeare and in Renaissance painting: the snail. Taking as its point of departure the emergence of the gastropod object/subject in the text of King Lear as well as its iconic interface in Giovanni Bellini's painting Allegory of Falsehood (circa 1490), this study sets out to follow the particular path traced by the snail throughout the Iuvre. From the central scene in which the metaphor of the snail and of its shell is specifically made manifest when Lear discovers, in a raging storm, the spectacle of Edgar disguised as Poor Tom coming out of his shelter (III.3.6-9) to the monster, this fiend, displaying on the cliffs of Dover, 'horms whelked and waved like the enridg-d sea' (IV.6.71), this work is the trace of a narrative - of a journey of the gaze - during the course of which the cryptic question of the gastropod - 'Why a Snail [-]?' (I.5.26) - does not cease to be developed and transformed. Incorporating a wide-ranging post-structuralist critique, the study aims to bring to light the particular functions of this 'revealing detail' in both its textual and visual dimension so as to put forward a new and innovatory understanding of the tragedy of King Lear."--Publisher's website
Content:
"Shakespeare's Spiral aims to explore a figure forgotten in the dramatic texts of Shakespeare and in Renaissance painting: the snail. Taking as its point of departure the emergence of the gastropod object/subject in the text of King Lear as well as its iconic interface in Giovanni Bellini's painting Allegory of Falsehood (circa 1490), this study sets out to follow the particular path traced by the snail throughout the Iuvre. From the central scene in which the metaphor of the snail and of its shell is specifically made manifest when Lear discovers, in a raging storm, the spectacle of Edgar disguised as Poor Tom coming out of his shelter (III.3.6-9) to the monster, this fiend, displaying on the cliffs of Dover, 'horms whelked and waved like the enridg_d sea' (IV.6.71), this work is the trace of a narrative - of a journey of the gaze - during the course of which the cryptic question of the gastropod - 'Why a Snail [_]?' (I.5.26) - does not cease to be developed and transformed. Incorporating a wide-ranging post-structuralist critique, the study aims to bring to light the particular functions of this 'revealing detail' in both its textual and visual dimension so as to put forward a new and innovatory understanding of the tragedy of King Lear."--Publisher's website
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-241) and index
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Part One: A Shakespearean Gaze at the Snail. Introducing the Snail ; From the Hovel to the Shell ; Mutatis Mutandis I: From the Snail to the Worm ; The Decadence of the Garden Snail ; Mutatis Mutandis II: From the Worm to the Shell ; The Resurrection Shell ; The Virgin Mary's Snail ; Opening up the Spiral Quest.Part Two: The Renascent Spiral: Dazzling-Darkening. Introduction: Seeing and Thinking Blindly ; Dazzling-Darkening in King Lear ; Conclusion: The Eye-Spiral: Shakespeare - Charcot - Dürer. -- Part Three: Under the Eye of Gorgô or the Medusa-Snail. Recapitulation and Re: Capitulation ; Theoretical and Aporetic Considerations ; Sleep and Macbeth ; Return to King Lear: The Medusa-Snail.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780761848936
Language:
English
Keywords:
Kunst
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Literatur
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Komposition
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Spirale
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Geschichte 1420-1600
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Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 King Lear
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Bellini, Giovanni 1430-1516
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Spirale
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Kunst
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Literatur
;
Komposition
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Geschichte 1420-1600
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