Visits to Bedlam: Madness and Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of South Carolina Press, 1974 - 200 Seiten |
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... insanity " ) . The Platonic and Aristotelian statements are the loci classici of these balanced contradictions . 2 Plato expresses mythologically man's willingness to believe that madness gives its victims access to truths denied the ...
... insanity " ) . The Platonic and Aristotelian statements are the loci classici of these balanced contradictions . 2 Plato expresses mythologically man's willingness to believe that madness gives its victims access to truths denied the ...
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... insanity are social truths ; their nature is corrosive and , above all , satirical . On the other hand , the lessons of madness for Lear can be called spiritual : he has learned and grown ; more than any other Shakesperean hero he has ...
... insanity are social truths ; their nature is corrosive and , above all , satirical . On the other hand , the lessons of madness for Lear can be called spiritual : he has learned and grown ; more than any other Shakesperean hero he has ...
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... insanity in England by the nation's " excess of wealth and luxury " ( making the Johnsonian point that “ In Scotland , where the inhabitants in general are neither opulent nor luxurious , Insanity , as I am informed , is very rare ...
... insanity in England by the nation's " excess of wealth and luxury " ( making the Johnsonian point that “ In Scotland , where the inhabitants in general are neither opulent nor luxurious , Insanity , as I am informed , is very rare ...
Inhalt
CHAPTER TWO The Dunciad and Augustan Madness | 12 |
CHAPTER THREE Swift | 58 |
CHAPTER FOUR Johnson | 88 |
Urheberrecht | |
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