This major new interdisciplinary study argues that Shakespeare exploited long-established connections between vision, space and language in order to construct rhetorical equivalents for visual perspective. Through a detailed comparison of art and poetic theory in Italy and England, Thorne shows how perspective was appropriated by English writers, who reinterpreted it to suit their own literary concerns and cultural context.
Focusing on five Shakespearean plays, she situates their preoccupation with issues of viewpoint in relation to a range of artistic forms and topics from miniatures to masques.
| ISBN: | 9780312226572 |
| Publication date: | 1st December 2000 |
| Author: | Alison Thorne |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 290 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: general Linguistics |
This major new interdisciplinary study argues that Shakespeare exploited long-established connections between vision, space and language in order to construct rhetorical equivalents for visual perspective. Through a detailed comparison of art and poetic theory in Italy and England, Thorne shows how perspective was appropriated by English writers, who reinterpreted it to suit their own literary concerns and cultural context.
Vision and Rhetoric in Shakespeare features in the following genres: Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: general, Linguistics
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Vision and Rhetoric in Shakespeare was written by Alison Thorne and published by Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK
Vision and Rhetoric in Shakespeare has 290 pages