Literary WitUniversity of Massachusetts Press, 2000 - Počet stran: 181 "To develop this new approach, Michelson explores Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar and Oscar Wilde's "Preface" to The Picture of Dorian Gray. He also offers the first extended discussion of two celebrated recent dramas - Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and Margaret Edson's Pulitzer-winning Wit - as well as insightful readings of major poems by Richard Wilbur. He concludes with a suggestive look at the contemporary revolution in cognitive science and its implications for our understanding of the comic dimension in modern literature."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... Vivian shatters an intimate moment , a little of the human kindness she has yearned for , by laughing uncontrollably at the young nurse's misunderstanding of the word soporific . Vivian's feelings for Susie never seem to ripen into more ...
... Vivian shatters an intimate moment , a little of the human kindness she has yearned for , by laughing uncontrollably at the young nurse's misunderstanding of the word soporific . Vivian's feelings for Susie never seem to ripen into more ...
Strana 133
... Vivian commends to anyone who will or won't listen . When Ashford herself , an old woman now , appears unex- pectedly in the clinic at the end of the drama to spend a few minutes with Vivian ( who by this point is on " soporific ...
... Vivian commends to anyone who will or won't listen . When Ashford herself , an old woman now , appears unex- pectedly in the clinic at the end of the drama to spend a few minutes with Vivian ( who by this point is on " soporific ...
Strana 135
... Vivian herself ultimately apolo- gizes , offering a single , quiet " Sorry " to her audience after a burst of explication - of Holy Sonnet 6 , of death , of her own life of reading . For Vivian , the consolation and triumph of the ...
... Vivian herself ultimately apolo- gizes , offering a single , quiet " Sorry " to her audience after a burst of explication - of Holy Sonnet 6 , of death , of her own life of reading . For Vivian , the consolation and triumph of the ...
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A Calendar and a Preface | 37 |
Witty Plays Witty Poems | 73 |
Wit Wyt and Modern Literary Predicaments | 125 |
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