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From:Italica (Vol. 96, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: This essay, written as a sequel to "From Passio to Compassio: Marian Beatrice and Dante in the Vita Nuova" (Kim), first observes Beatrice, Vergil, and Dante imitating and enacting Mary in the Inferno and then...
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 87. )Introduction The Comedy of Errors (c. 1594) is the shortest play in the Shakespearean canon and is considered to be one of Shakespeare's earliest and least romantic comedies. The play has been long regarded as an...
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From:Contemporary Dramatists (5th ed.)In 1958, when Peter Shaffer's Five Finger Exercise achieved critical acclaim in London, it was difficult to reconcile its middle-class tone and formal elements with the breed of theatre of Britain's Angry Young Men then...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Lost Illusions resembles another of Balzac's novels, The Black Sheep, in that it is set partly in Paris and partly in the provinces. It is unique, however, among the novels and short stories of The Human Comedy in the...
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From: Symbolic Interactions: Social Problems and Literary Interventions in the Works of Baillie, Scott, and Landor[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Hewitt notes that the executions in Baillie’s judicial dramas were primarily to portray the abuse of power and that she focuses on the humanity of the defendant and the lack of...
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From: The CriticBalzac's short stories, which we call in French nouvelles, are, generally speaking, not the best-known or the most popular part of his work; nor are they the part best fitted to give a true and complete idea of his...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Cousin Bette is one half of a diptych that includes Cousin Pons, Balzac's last major achievement. Its action takes place entirely in Paris between 1838 and 1946. Never elsewhere in The Human Comedy, and seldom elsewhere...
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From: The Fortnightly ReviewAs a traveller in the unknown East, standing on the last ridge of the last hill, sees a city, and in awe contemplates the walls fabulous with terraces and gates, the domes and the towers clothed in all the light of the...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Increasingly seen as a remarkably well-constructed, sophisticated combination of literary and dramatic materials drawn from diverse sources, and as anticipating in a number of ways many of his later comedies and...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersStanley Elkin was what so many American writers only try to be: an American original. His combination of the storyteller's essentially oral, seemingly artless style with an exemplary and painstaking dedication to craft...
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From: The Fortnightly Review[Symons is generally considered the foremost critic of the French Symbolist movement. The following essay, published at the height of his involvement with the Decadent movement, employs the perceptive, subjective...
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From:The Kenyon Review (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThere are hundreds of her. Here: she poses in shimmering gold, with burnished curls and dosed eyes. (1) In another portrait, her gaze fades behind lavender veils. Ghostlike, she rematerializes black and white in a...
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From:Cineaste (Vol. 29, Issue 1)On December 17, 2002, the National Film Preservation Foundation listed another twenty-five films selected for preservation in the Library of Congress. One of them is Punch Drunks, a 1934 two-reel comedy featuring The...
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From:The American Poetry Review (Vol. 45, Issue 6)I. Why do we read literature? I'd spent so much of my life reading, and suddenly I couldn't answer that question. I stopped reading--or, rather, I read in a completely different way--I read about things. I read to...
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From:Variaciones Borges (Vol. 47) Peer-ReviewedNingun texto se lee independientemente de la experiencia que el lector tiene de otros textos. Umberto Eco, Lector in fabula In "El encuentro en un sueno" (Nueve ensayos dantescos, 1982) Borges analyses Beatrice's...
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From:Film Criticism (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe King of Comedy puzzled many people, including many of Scoresese's admirers. Yes, the end more or less recapitulated the end of Taxi Driver, but otherwise, how does it relate to the previous films? An anomaly, a dead...
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From:Spectator (Vol. 320, Issue 9604)The Establishment Club reopens in Soho this week, and it is easy to see why. Peter Cook started the original club in 1961, when there was an unpopular Conservative government, led by a cabal of Old Etonians, presiding...
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From:Southwest Review (Vol. 95, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedWhen I was growing up, I used to hurry through dinner to watch films like My Favorite Wife and Bringing Up Baby on Million Dollar Movie , a nightly feature on Channel 9 in the New York metropolitan area. My love for...
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From:American Theatre (Vol. 19, Issue 4)TODD LONDON, IN HIS AMERICAN THEATRE ESSAY "What We Talk About When We Talk About Good" (Sept. '01), envisions a new, more profound criticism. He notes that, in order to "reinvent critics, we'll have to do the same with...
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From:Cultural Critique (Issue 111) Peer-ReviewedEarly on in my research for this article on race and comedy, I came upon a novel by Jessie Redmon Fauset titled Comedy: American Style (1933). Fauset, a prominent yet understudied writer and editor active during the...