Literary Allusion in Harry Potter

Literary Allusion in Harry Potter
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 197
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ISBN-10 : 9781351978736
ISBN-13 : 135197873X
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Literary Allusion in Harry Potter by : Beatrice Groves

Each chapter of Literary Allusion in Harry Potter consists of an in-depth discussion of the intersection between Potter and a canonical literary work; a discussion which aims to transform the reader’s understanding of Rowling’s literary achievement as well as to encourage wider reading and discovery of writers with who they may not be familiar.

The Bible in Shakespeare

The Bible in Shakespeare
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 397
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ISBN-10 : 9780199677610
ISBN-13 : 0199677611
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis The Bible in Shakespeare by : Hannibal Hamlin

The Bible in Shakespeare is a critical study of the links between the two great pillars of English culture, the Bible and the works of Shakespeare.

Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays

Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays
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Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Total Pages : 896
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ISBN-10 : 0874136776
ISBN-13 : 9780874136777
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays by : Naseeb Shaheen

Analyzes the biblical references that Shakespeare makes in his plays, surveying the different English Bibles available to Shakespeare, and pointing out which of these he referred to most often (the King James version only appeared near the end of his career). Also examines biblical references found in literary source material used by Shakespeare to determine whether he used or adapted these or added others from his own memory; and what these allusions would have meant to audiences of the time.--From publisher description.

Shakespeare and the Bible

Shakespeare and the Bible
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 165
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ISBN-10 : 0198184409
ISBN-13 : 9780198184409
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare and the Bible by : Steven Marx

Oxford Shakespeare Topics provides students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide tofurther reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research. Despite the presence of hundreds of Biblical allusions in Shakespeare, this is the first book to explore the pattern and significance of those references in relation to a selection of his greatest plays. It reveals the Bible as a rich source for Shakespeare's uses of myth, history, comedy andtragedy, his techniques of staging, and his ways of characterizing rulers, magicians and teachers in the image of the Bible's multifaceted God. This book also discloses ways in which Shakespeare's plays offer both pious and irreverent interpretations of the Scriptures comparable to those presentedby his contemporary writers, artists, philosophers and politicians. After an opening chapter comparing the Bible as a fragmented yet unified collection of 46 books with the fragmented yet unified First Folio collection of Shakespeare's 36 plays, each of the following six chapters matches a book of the Bible with a representative play: the creation myth of Genesiswith the first play in the Folio, The Tempest, the historical epic of Exodus with Henry V, the tragedy of Job with King Lear, the tragicomedy of the Gospel of Matthew with Measure for Measure, the homiletic disputation of Paul's Epistle to the Romans with The Merchant of Venice, and the apocalypticmasque of the Book of Revelation with The Tempest again. Though its subject matter and style appeal to a broad audience, this book is grounded in recent scholarship in Shakespeare and Biblical studies. Its intertextual readings are framed by descriptions of the historical circumstances of each work's composition and reception and by an emergent theory ofallusion as a principle of creation and understanding.

The Shakspere Allusion-book

The Shakspere Allusion-book
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 610
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B3310421
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis The Shakspere Allusion-book by : John James Munro

Wise Children

Wise Children
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 0374530947
ISBN-13 : 9780374530945
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Wise Children by : Angela Carter

A comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances. It contains as many sets of twins and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.

Literature and Drama

Literature and Drama
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 144
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ISBN-10 : 9781136565809
ISBN-13 : 1136565809
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Literature and Drama by : Stanley Wells

First published in 1970. This book examines the areas of plays that are dependent upon the art of the theatre and the fluidity of interpretation to which this gives rise. It discusses the printing of plays and the limited attempts that have have been made to convey theatrical experience, taking as a particular example a masque by Ben Jonson. Finally, some of the problems created by the instability of theatrical art

The History Plays

The History Plays
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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages : 987
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ISBN-10 : 9781466884366
ISBN-13 : 1466884363
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis The History Plays by : William Shakespeare

It is part of Shakespeare's extraordinary contribution to our culture that, through his dramas based on English history, he played a unique part in forming our view of ourselves and our nationhood. From King John, in which through Magna Carta the king's absolute power was first limited and the people's freedoms assured, to--almost in his own lifetime--Henry VIII, Shakespeare wrote a series of ten plays portraying the course of history. It represents almost one third of his entire dramatic output. The overarching theme of these plays is the vital importance of the sovereign's legitimacy if the nation is to be stable. They cover revolutionary times and events--the deposition and murder of Richard II, the Wars of the Roses, the usurping of the throne by Richard III--but they always affirm the principle that a legitimate king, circumscribed by an agreed constituion, is the only proper guarantee of the nation's liberties. There are many other ways in which Shakespeare's patriotism has become definitive. In Henry V's St. Crispin's Day speech to the troops before Agincourt, for example, or John of gaunt's 'scepter'd isle' speech, a sense of Englishness is expressed which still lives in English minds today. The E;izabethan's pride in nationhood was perfectly embodied by Shakespeare, but the poetry of it transcends its own time. In this edition the history plays are brought together with a large group of illustrations which echo and amplify their themes. Gloriously vivid images of England's story are presented here, putting the great plays in a magnificent setting.

Scare Quotes from Shakespeare

Scare Quotes from Shakespeare
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 0804736219
ISBN-13 : 9780804736213
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Scare Quotes from Shakespeare by : Martin Harries

This book argues that moments of allusion to the supernatural in Shakespeare are occasions where Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes register the perseverance of haunted structures in modern culture. This "reenchantment," at the heart of modernity and of literary and political works central to our understanding of modernity, is the focus of this book. The author shows that allusion to supernatural moments in Shakespeare ("scare quotes") allows writers to both acknowledge and distance themselves from the supernatural phenomena that challenge their disenchanted understanding of the social world. He also uses these modern appropriations of Shakespeare as provocations to reread some of his works, notably Hamlet and Macbeth. Two pairs of linked chapters form the center of the book. One pair joins a reading of Marx, concentrating on The Eighteenth Brumaire, to Hamlet; the other links a reading of Keynes, focusing on The Economic Consequences of the Peace, to Macbeth. The chapters on Marx and Keynes trace some of the strange circuits of supernatural rhetoric in their work, Marx's use of ghosts and Keynes's fascination with witchcraft. The sequence linking Marx to Hamlet, for example, has as its anchor the Frankfurt School's concept of the phantasmagoria, the notion that it is in the most archaic that one encounters the figure of the new. Looking closely at Marx's association of the Ghost in Hamlet with the coming revolution in turn illuminates Hamlet's association of the Ghost with the supernatural beings many believed haunted mines. An opening chapter discusses Henry Dircks, a nineteenth-century English inventor who developed—and then lost his claim to—a phantasmagoria or machine to project ghosts on stage. Dircks resorted to magical rhetoric in response to his loss, which is emblematic for the book as a whole, charting ways the scare quote can, paradoxically, continue the work of enlightenment.

Shakespeare Beyond Doubt

Shakespeare Beyond Doubt
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 299
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781107017597
ISBN-13 : 1107017599
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare Beyond Doubt by : Paul Edmondson

Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? This authoritative collection of essays brings fresh perspectives to bear on an intriguing cultural phenomenon.