Hyperion and the hobbyhorse: studies in carnivalesque subversion

This book constructs a paradigm for the operation of subversive comedy - what Arthur Lindley, the author, calls the Augustinian carnivalesque - by examining some of the major texts of Ricardian and Elizabethan literature. By identifying some common characteristics of these works, Lindley argues that...

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1. Verfasser: Lindley, Arthur (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newark, Del. Univ. of Delaware Press [u.a.] 1996
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Zusammenfassung:This book constructs a paradigm for the operation of subversive comedy - what Arthur Lindley, the author, calls the Augustinian carnivalesque - by examining some of the major texts of Ricardian and Elizabethan literature. By identifying some common characteristics of these works, Lindley argues that they must be seen in terms of a continuous, fundamentally Augustinian, Christian culture that is marked by a pervasive anti-heroic comedy that interrogates the official secular order and the role-based social identities that comprise it. Underlying this is a common attitude of Christian skepticism and a common use of carnivalesque demystification of power. In this pattern of continuity, concern with subjectivity, the mysteries of the self, and the tension between inward consciousness and outward role long antedates, say, Hamlet. Subjection, in other words, is not an Elizabethan (or Shakespearean) invention, but a constant concern of Augustinian literature going back to Confessions.
Beschreibung:197 S. Ill.
ISBN:0874135885

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