Early English Tragedy, Ibsen, and Drama’s Mirroring Rhythm: Shades of Enactment
May 2025 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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This book concerns several aspects of literary theory: the constraints upon any language at any time; the healing rhythms available to the production of drama; and the omnipresent vigor of Greek drama, in the background of the western dramatic tradition. These themes have moved in and out of the author's sixty-five works of poetry, philosophy and literary argumentation. The dominant conviction pervading all these works is that the imagination has the power to establish new worlds in language, and that such an establishment is a perennial home for constructive thought.
About the author
Frederic Will is a long-time professor of Comparative Literature, a historian of ideas, a marcher through lyric and anti-lyric poetry, a travel and short story writer, and a chronicler of the loneliness of the over-the-road trucker (Vide Big Rig Souls). His overriding intention as a writer is to sharpen the reader's insight into the role of imagination as an unfolder of the unexpected in the deepest ravines of the past. Put him on a desert island, fine, but make sure he has copies of Gilgamesh, the Persians, Ajax, and Philoctetes. The past, that is, is for this author the mercy of time, opening to us the chance to review human identity.
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