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Shakespeare's Spiral
- Tracing the Snail in King Lear and Renaissance Painting
Engelsk Paperback
Shakespeare's Spiral
- Tracing the Snail in King Lear and Renaissance Painting
Engelsk Paperback

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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 œuvre. 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 enridgèd 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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
300
ISBN-13:
9780761841371
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0761841377
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
19 mar 2010
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
159mm
Højde:
232mm
Forlag:
University Press of America
Oplagsdato:
19 mar 2010
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge