John DrydenHarold Bloom Chelsea House, 1987 - 234 pages A collection of twelve critical essays on the work of Dryden, arranged in chronological order of original publication. |
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Page 116
... action . All for Love thus derives its effect from a central dramatic disjunction : the protagonists ' innocence and weakness produce pathos , while their implicit heroism gives that pathos an epic grandeur , a sense that empires and ...
... action . All for Love thus derives its effect from a central dramatic disjunction : the protagonists ' innocence and weakness produce pathos , while their implicit heroism gives that pathos an epic grandeur , a sense that empires and ...
Page 162
... action momentarily converge both encounters serve explicitly to reinforce that sense of the social distance between high and low plot characters which customarily is achieved by their strict segregation . ( see 5.1.80-125 , where the ...
... action momentarily converge both encounters serve explicitly to reinforce that sense of the social distance between high and low plot characters which customarily is achieved by their strict segregation . ( see 5.1.80-125 , where the ...
Page 162
... action momen- tarily converge both encounters serve explicitly to reinforce that sense of the social distance between high and low plot characters which customarily is achieved by their strict segregation . ( see 5.1.80-125 , where the ...
... action momen- tarily converge both encounters serve explicitly to reinforce that sense of the social distance between high and low plot characters which customarily is achieved by their strict segregation . ( see 5.1.80-125 , where the ...
Contents
The Trivialization of Universal Harmony | 7 |
The Herculean Hero in All for Love | 31 |
Absalom and Achitophel | 43 |
Copyright | |
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