Othello and Interpretive TraditionsUniversity of Iowa Press, 1. 2. 2012 - Počet stran: 228 During the past twenty years or so, Othello has become the Shakespearean tragedy that speaks most powerfully to our contemporary concerns. Focusing on race and gender (and on class, ethnicity, sexuality, and nationality), the play talks about what audiences want to talk about. Yet at the same time, as refracted through Iago, it forces us to hear what we do not want to hear; like the characters in the play, we become trapped in our own prejudicial malice and guilt. |
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... emphasized the importance of contex- tualization for interpretation . If you don't understand the context of aca- demic lectures you might miss the point , taking the critical analysis of prurient interest for an expression of the ...
... emphasized the importance of contex- tualization for interpretation . If you don't understand the context of aca- demic lectures you might miss the point , taking the critical analysis of prurient interest for an expression of the ...
Strana 8
... emphasize the consistency of the response record . The sense of painful double bind I described earlier in contemporary response to Othello is not unique to our time . Trying to account for " the peculiarity of Othello " as " the most ...
... emphasize the consistency of the response record . The sense of painful double bind I described earlier in contemporary response to Othello is not unique to our time . Trying to account for " the peculiarity of Othello " as " the most ...
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... emphasis ) . Here as elsewhere , Eliot was enormously influential . His casual im- pression precipitated a fundamental shift in twentieth - century criticism away from an admirable to a deeply flawed protagonist . It was F. R. Leavis ...
... emphasis ) . Here as elsewhere , Eliot was enormously influential . His casual im- pression precipitated a fundamental shift in twentieth - century criticism away from an admirable to a deeply flawed protagonist . It was F. R. Leavis ...
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... emphasis ) Norris is right to characterize Leavis as a “ typically combative " writer and plausible in his claim that this obsessive kind of involvement is itself " not uncommon , " typical of critical response in general . Nonetheless ...
... emphasis ) Norris is right to characterize Leavis as a “ typically combative " writer and plausible in his claim that this obsessive kind of involvement is itself " not uncommon , " typical of critical response in general . Nonetheless ...
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... emphasis ) . For Holloway , this dis- turbing " what " in Othello is clearly sexual in nature . In disagreeing with Leavis , he evokes the authority of “ everyone's familiar knowledge about love , marriage and attraction between men and ...
... emphasis ) . For Holloway , this dis- turbing " what " in Othello is clearly sexual in nature . In disagreeing with Leavis , he evokes the authority of “ everyone's familiar knowledge about love , marriage and attraction between men and ...
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lago | 53 |
The Fall of Othello | 79 |
The Pity Act | 113 |
Death without Transfiguration | 141 |
Interpretation as Contamination | 169 |
Character Endures | 183 |
Notes | 193 |
Works Cited | 231 |
Index | 247 |
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