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 151
... language and metaphor in the next century . This view of language is anticipated almost by accident in Sprat's History of the Royal Society . Even though in the previous chapter Sprat has argued that in every culture language reached ...
... language and metaphor in the next century . This view of language is anticipated almost by accident in Sprat's History of the Royal Society . Even though in the previous chapter Sprat has argued that in every culture language reached ...
Page 157
... language — of Homer's having exhausted invention , for example — is more or less evenly balanced by his unswerving faith in the progress or " refine- ment " of language , with the help of which he has " improved " Chaucer . It is too ...
... language — of Homer's having exhausted invention , for example — is more or less evenly balanced by his unswerving faith in the progress or " refine- ment " of language , with the help of which he has " improved " Chaucer . It is too ...
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... language . And in this respect the phenomenon of “ structuralism " may be most intelligible not simply as idealism but as the product of a reifying reversal , of a dialectic that has become permanently stalled at the " moment " of ...
... language . And in this respect the phenomenon of “ structuralism " may be most intelligible not simply as idealism but as the product of a reifying reversal , of a dialectic that has become permanently stalled at the " moment " of ...
Contents
The Trivialization of Universal Harmony | 7 |
The Herculean Hero in All for Love | 31 |
Absalom and Achitophel | 43 |
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