Shakespeare''s Sonnets - Self, Love and Art

Klappentext This study closely analyses sonnets to bring out what they can tell us of different kinds of love, particularly self-love. Zusammenfassung This study closely analyses sonnets to bring out what they can tell us of different kinds of love! particularly self-love! the relation of these to the world of natural growth and temporal succession! and finally the ways in which art can properly be defined as a form of love. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. Sin of self-love: the youth; 2. Sin of self-love: the poet; 3. Self-love and love itself; 4. The sonnet and the sonneteers; 5. Shakespeare and Donne; 6. Art as a mode of love; Bibliography; List of Shakespeare's sonnets discussed; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Martin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521144636
• ISBN: 978-0-521-14463-6
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean