mary elizabeth grenander (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Privately owned hardcover, no jacket, unmarked text, Ships from Berlin Bookshop bxn128.

Reprint., stapled. Zustand: Gut. pp. 224-248. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - A very good and clean copy. - From the text: Macbeth poses a fundamental problem for the aesthetician. Modern readers as disparate as the composer Ernest Bloch, the anthropologist Loren Eiseley, the poet Kenneth Rexroth, and the cinéaste Roman Polanski have testified to its enduring power. And yet the recurring challenge, as A. C. Bradley long ago recognized and as Rexroth has reaffirmed, is that Shakespeare's play does not fit the criteria for a tragedy laid down in Aristotle's Poetics. Lily Bess Campbell, who referred to Hatnlet, Othello, and King Lear as "tragedies" (of, respectively, Grief, Jealousy, and Wrath in Old Age), neatly sidestepped the issue in Macbeth by calling it a "study" (in Fear). Most critics have nevertheless tried to explain this drama (and other similar works) according to the Aristotelian theory of tragedy. Their attempt is subsumed under a larger problem, outlined by Bernard Beckerman: the disproportion in critical refinement between the Poetics and the primitive theories attempting to describe alternate dramatic species. Beckerman therefore calls for "a comprehensive theory' which'encompasses but goes beyond the Aristotelian and yet within which individual works can be located."' This can be developed only by examining those dramas which do not yield to Aristotelian analysis. For this reason, Macbeth raises questions of a special kind, perennially fascinating to those who wish to extend critical theory in the direction of greater flexibility and subtlety. If one assumes that criticism must follow creationthat the critic's job is not to lay down a priori rules, but to examine the workings of a play which experience has shown to be effectivethen evidently Macbeth requires us to develop some aesthetic principles that have not heretofore been formulated. - Wikipedia: Mary Elizabeth Grenander (21 November 1918 28 May 1998), was a professor of English and philanthropist, for whom the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives of the University Libraries of the University at Albany, the State University of New York is named. She was an authority on Ambrose Bierce. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.