Mirror for Lovers (eBook)
592 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-7511-8 (ISBN)
A Mirror for Lovers: Shake-speare's Sonnets as Curious Perspective, by William F. Zak,seeks to identify in Shake-speare'e sonnet sequence the structural and thematic features of the satirical tradition born in Plato's Symposium. Through this study, Zak traces the power of an idea to endure, re-animate, and enrich itself through time: Plato's discrimination of the true nature of love in The Symposium. Born anew in its medieval reincarnations (The Romance of the Rose, The Vita Nuova, and The Canzoniere of Petrarch), the tradition begun in Plato's Symposium was then resuscitated in the Elizabethan sonnet sequence revival, most notably in Shake-speare's Sonnets. With extended examination of all the texts in the Q manuscript, A Mirror for Lovers makes a case for the mutually illuminating relationship among the sonnets to the fair young man and the dark lady, ';A Lover's Complaint,' and the mysterious dedication that until now have never received attention as an integral symbolic matrix of meaning.
William F. Zak (PhD, University of Michigan) is Emeritus Professor of English at Salisbury University in Maryland. Thinking and writing about Shakespeare's sonnets have absorbed the greater part of his working energies since his retirement from teaching in 2002. His previous work includes a study of King Lear entitled Sovereign Shame (Bucknell, 1984) and The Polis and the Divine Order: The Oresteia, Sophocles, and the Defense of Democracy (Bucknell, 1995). Currently he is completing monographs on Antony and Cleopatra and on Hamlet.
Preface and Acknowledgments1. The Tradition and Its Individual Talents2. The Immortal Word Made Flesh to Dwell Among Us3. The Marriage of True Minds: the Bard and the Reader4. The Procreation Group5. The Civil War in Shake-speare’s Love and Hate6. L’Ora Beatrice7. The Dark Lady: A Woman Colored IllNotesIndex
Clearly reasoned and jargon-free, this book offers many historical and critical insights that will enhance our reading of the Sonnets.
A powerful new vision of Shakespeare’s most important as well as most fiendishly difficult poems. It will renew the Sonnets for their present readers in the most moving and surprising ways. Zak does full justice to their ironic subtlety and yet, at the same time, and by means of a really original responsiveness to their 'perspective art', unfolds a beautiful and inspiring love-mysticism pertaining to our earthly lives, rather than to the hereafter. Unlike much academic criticism, this is a really lively book with something important to say to us.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.2.2013 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | British Literature • World literature |
ISBN-10 | 0-7391-7511-4 / 0739175114 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7391-7511-8 / 9780739175118 |
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