The Greek Romances In Elizabethan Prose Fiction Volume 10

Author : Samuel Lee Wolff
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 138 pages
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Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230294309

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The Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction Volume 10 by Samuel Lee Wolff Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II Plot, Character (humor), Sett1ng; StrucTure, Style The Greek Romances, evidently, have for their material the staples of the world's fiction--love and adventure, more or less interwoven; and it is upon this generic similarity in matter that their specific differences in treatment are thrown into relief. For the present purpose, which is rather to characterize critically the Greek Romance than to appreciate separately the Greek Romances, it will suffice to draw attention to some of the differences without dwelling on them. The comparison will serve the descriptive purpose in view, and will at the same time serve to modify, as far as may be needful, the generalizations put forward in the introductory sketch. In their plots, Heliodorus, Longus, and Achilles Tatius all employ, as has been observed, some agency other than natural causation and human character. Heliodorus distributes the extra-human action in his main plot almost equally between Fortune and Providence--the latter, perhaps, slightly predominating. The exposure of Chariclea, which, both chronologically and causally, begins the story, is by common consent regarded as an avowed surrender to Fortune (II. xxxi; IV. viii). But immediately Providence sends the good gymnosophist to the rescue--a rescue the providential nature of which is to be inferred indirectly., though clearly enough, from the hieratic estate of Sisimithres, and directly from the assertion of Calasiris (II. xxiii): "The Goddes have made them my children by chaunce" (U 63), which by its confrontation of "The Goddes" with "chaunce," puts the matter beyond doubt. It is the gods, then, that have controlled, through Fortune as their instrument, the whole of that triple chain of seeming coincidences which...

Author : Samuel Lee Wolff
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022877224

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The Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction; Volume 10 by Samuel Lee Wolff Pdf

This fascinating and insightful work explores the influence of Greek romance literature on Elizabethan prose fiction. From the works of Sir Philip Sidney to the plays of William Shakespeare, the author provides a comprehensive analysis of how ancient Greek literature shaped the literary landscape of Renaissance England. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Samuel Lee Wolff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112002773916

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The Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction by Samuel Lee Wolff Pdf

Author : Samuel L. Wolff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0781271207

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The Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction by Samuel L. Wolff Pdf

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Author : Samuel Lee Wolff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015014860400

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The Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction by Samuel Lee Wolff Pdf

Author : Tanya Pollard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192511607

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Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages by Tanya Pollard Pdf

Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to challenge longstanding assumptions about Greek texts' invisibility, the book shows not only that the plays were more prominent than we have believed, but that early modern readers and audiences responded powerfully to specific plays and themes. The Greek plays most popular in the period were not male-centered dramas such as Sophocles' Oedipus, but tragedies by Euripides that focused on raging bereaved mothers and sacrificial virgin daughters, especially Hecuba and Iphigenia. Because tragedy was firmly linked with its Greek origin in the period's writings, these iconic female figures acquired a privileged status as synecdoches for the tragic theater and its ability to conjure sympathetic emotions in audiences. When Hamlet reflects on the moving power of tragic performance, he turns to the most prominent of these figures: 'What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba/ That he should weep for her?' Through readings of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporary dramatists, this book argues that newly visible Greek plays, identified with the origins of theatrical performance and represented by passionate female figures, challenged early modern writers to reimagine the affective possibilities of tragedy, comedy, and the emerging genre of tragicomedy.

Author : Alan Hager
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874133904

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Dazzling Images by Alan Hager Pdf

A discussion of Philip Sidney as a creator of fictions, a critic, and a poet, who adopted a variety of personae to teach his readers how they could fool themselves into forgetting who they were, both in the context of the psychic inner world and in the outer realm of social position. Included in this study are Sidney's court entertainments now known as The Lady of May, the Defence of Leicester, Defence of Poetry, and the Arcadias.

Author : Marcus Selden Goldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015066059836

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Sir Philip Sidney and the Arcadia by Marcus Selden Goldman Pdf

Author : Modern Language Association of America. Romance Literary Relations Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : UCBK:B000289301

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Papers on Romance Literary Relations by Modern Language Association of America. Romance Literary Relations Group Pdf

Author : Lori Humphrey Newcomb
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0231123787

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Reading Popular Romance in Early Modern England by Lori Humphrey Newcomb Pdf

This volume examines the proliferation of popular romances, their vilification by elite writers, and the ultimate opposition of "popular" and "literary" fiction. Using Robert Greene's "Pandosto" (1585), an Elizabethan prose romance that inspired Shakespeare's late play "The Winter's Tale" as a case study, Newcomb demonstrates that versions of the two texts repeatedly converge, resisting simple high/low division. Because Shakespeare's works are considered timeless literary achievements, critics have distanced his plays from their romance sources--a separation that until now has gone largely unquestioned. Newcomb challenges this assumption, providing a fascinating account of an early best-seller's incarnations over 250 years of literary history.

Author : Goran Stanivukovic
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442648876

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Knights in Arms by Goran Stanivukovic Pdf

Knights in Arms moves beyond the best-known examples of the genre, such as Philip Sidney'sArcadia, to consider the broad range of texts which featured the Eastern Mediterranean in this era.

Author : Kirk Melnikoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351902861

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Robert Greene by Kirk Melnikoff Pdf

While Robert Greene was the most prolific and perhaps the most notorious professional writer in Elizabethan England, he continues to be best known for his 1592 quip comparing Shakespeare to "an upstart crow." In his short twelve-year career, Greene wrote dozens of popular pamphlets in a variety of genres and numerous professional plays. At his premature death in 1592, he was a bonafide London celebrity, simultaneously maligned as Grub-Street profligate and celebrated as literary prodigy. The present volume constitutes the first collection of Greene's reception both in the early modern period and in our present era, offering in its poems, prose passages, essays, and chapters that which is most singular among what has been written about Greene and his work. It also includes a complete list of Greene's contemporary reception until 1640. Kirk Melnikoff's wide-ranging and revisionist introduction organizes this reception generically while at the same time situating it in the context of recent critical methodologies.

Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520079922

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A Reference Guide for English Studies by Michael J. Marcuse Pdf

This text is an introduction to the full range of standard reference tools in all branches of English studies. More than 10,000 titles are included. The Reference Guide covers all the areas traditionally defined as English studies and all the field of inquiry more recently associated with English studies. British and Irish, American and world literatures written in English are included. Other fields covered are folklore, film, literary theory, general and comparative literature, language and linguistics, rhetoric and composition, bibliography and textual criticism and women's studies.

Author : E. Sheen,L. Hutson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230597662

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Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance England by E. Sheen,L. Hutson Pdf

This collection features the work of both established and up-and-coming scholars in the UK and US, with contributors including Peter Goodrich, Lorna Hutson, Erica Sheen and David Colclough studying the period of the English Renaissance from the 1520s to the 1660s. This wide-ranging study, working on the edge of new historicism as well as book history, covers topics such as libel/slander and literary debate, legal textual production, authorship and the politics of authorial attribution and theatre and the law.

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351922005

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Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England by Andrew Hadfield Pdf

1978 witnessed the publication of Peter Burke's groundbreaking study Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. Now in its third edition this remarkable book has for thirty years set the benchmark for cultural historians with its wide ranging and imaginative exploration of early modern European popular culture. In order to celebrate this achievement, and to explore the ways in which perceptions of popular culture have changed in the intervening years a group of leading scholars are brought together in this new volume to examine Burke's thesis in relation to England. Adopting an appropriately interdisciplinary approach, the collection offers an unprecedented survey of the field of popular culture in early modern England as it currently stands, bringing together scholars at the forefront of developments in an expanding area. Taking as its starting point Burke's argument that popular culture was everyone's culture, distinguishing it from high culture, which only a restricted social group could access, it explores an intriguing variety of sources to discover whether this was in fact the case in early modern England. It further explores the meaning and significance of the term 'popular culture' when applied to the early modern period: how did people distinguish between high and low culture - could they in fact do so? Concluded by an Afterword by Peter Burke, the volume provides a vivid sense of the range and significance of early modern popular culture and the difficulties involved in defining and studying it.