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245 - Rhetoric, Form, Aesthetics

from Part XXV - Shakespeare and the Critics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Mark David Rasmussen
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Adorno, Theodoraesthetics (aesthetic, aestheticism)Altman, Joel B.BanquoBardolatryBooth, StephenBrooks, CleanthBurke, KennethColeridge, Samuel TaylordeconstructionEmpson, WilliamFerdinandfigurative languageform (formal, formalism)Frye, NorthropgenreGrady, HughGreenblatt, Stephenimage (images, imagery)Johnson, SamuelLady MacbethMacbeth (the character)Macbeth (the play)MacduffmetaphorA Midsummer Night’s DreamMirandaneoclassicism (neoclassical)new aestheticism (new aestheticist)New Criticism (New Critical)new formalism (new formalist)new historicism (new historicist)organic form (organicism)Parker, PatriciaProsperopunsRestorationrhetoric (rhetorical)Romanticism (Romantic)Rymer, ThomasThe TempestVendler, Helen
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 1738 - 1746
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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