The Ghost behind the Masks

The Ghost behind the Masks
Author :
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Total Pages : 414
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780813935454
ISBN-13 : 0813935458
Rating : 4/5 (458 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Ghost behind the Masks by : W. David Shaw

Download or read book The Ghost behind the Masks written by W. David Shaw and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Ghost behind the Masks, W. David Shaw traces Shakespeare’s influence on nine Victorian poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Algernon Swinburne, Arthur Hugh Clough, and George Meredith. Often, he writes, the transparency of Shakespeare's influence on Victorian poets and the degree of their engagement with Shakespeare exist in inverse ratio. Instead of imitating a play by Shakespeare or merely quoting his lines, a Victorian poet may embrace more elusive elements of rhetoric and style, adapting them to his or her own ends. Shaw argues that the most Shakespearean attribute of the Victorian poets is not their addiction to any particular trope or figure of speech but their reticence, the classical restraint of their great monologues, and their sudden descent from grandeur to simplicity. He explores such topics as man-made law versus natural right, Stoic fatalism versus self-reliance, and the sanity of lunatics, lovers, and poets versus the madness of commonplace minds.


The Ghost behind the Masks Related Books

The Ghost behind the Masks
Language: en
Pages: 414
Authors: W. David Shaw
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-02 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In The Ghost behind the Masks, W. David Shaw traces Shakespeare’s influence on nine Victorian poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti
The Haunted Mask (Goosebumps Most Wanted)
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: R. L. Stine
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-01 - Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

For the first time ever, Goosebumps is in hard cover! Catch the series' most notorious characters--undead or alive... For the first time ever, Goosebumps is in
The Haunted Mask (Classic Goosebumps #4)
Language: en
Pages: 107
Authors: R. L. Stine
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-01 - Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Goosebumps now on Disney+! How ugly is Carly Beth's Halloween mask? It's so ugly that it almost scared her little brother to death. So terrifying that even her
Behind the Gas Mask
Language: en
Pages: 176
Authors: Thomas I Faith
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-15 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Behind the Gas Mask, Thomas Faith offers an institutional history of the Chemical Warfare Service, the department tasked with improving the Army's ability to
Haunted Mask
Language: en
Pages: 121
Authors: R. L. Stine
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-01 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A young girl purchases the most frighteningly lifelike Halloween mask and then, to her horror, discovers that she is unable to remove it from her face.