The Landscape of the Mind: Pastoralism and Platonic Theory in Tasso's Aminta and Shakespeare's Early Comedies |
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... reader of the Cardenio episode in Don Quixote need wonder what pastoral clench is being employed . Certain difficulties of the finale may even be explained away by a pastoral reading : notably the inconsistency of the Duke and inward ...
... reader of the Cardenio episode in Don Quixote need wonder what pastoral clench is being employed . Certain difficulties of the finale may even be explained away by a pastoral reading : notably the inconsistency of the Duke and inward ...
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... reader - any passer - by at the Folger - knows about A Midsummer - Night's Dream is right enough . At the centre of the ... reading of a play that no one would deny is mytho- logical.2 In the light of the Aminta this most mature of the ...
... reader - any passer - by at the Folger - knows about A Midsummer - Night's Dream is right enough . At the centre of the ... reading of a play that no one would deny is mytho- logical.2 In the light of the Aminta this most mature of the ...
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... reader is forced to invent statements of his own and they are liable to conflict with one another.1 This is an ingenious , up - to - date way of reading the poem - a search for complexity . But it overlooks the Orphic preference for the ...
... reader is forced to invent statements of his own and they are liable to conflict with one another.1 This is an ingenious , up - to - date way of reading the poem - a search for complexity . But it overlooks the Orphic preference for the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
Copyright | |
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