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In this, her last book, Rosalie L. Colie suggests that by linking "forms"--verse forms, devices, motives, themes, conventions, genres--to the culture from which a writer springs and to his selection and organization of materials, we can understand the processes by which he becomes what he is, and is enabled to do what he does. She is particularly



Table of Contents
*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. v*Note, pg. viii*Contents, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*1. Criticism and the Analysis of Craft: Love's Labour's Lost and the Sonnets, pg. 31*2. Mel and Sal: Some Problems in Sonnet-Theory, pg. 68*3. Othello and the Problematics of Love, pg. 135*4. Antony and Cleopatra: The Significance of Style, pg. 168*5. Hamlet: Reflections on an Anatomy of Melancholy, pg. 208*6. Perspectives on Pastoral: Romance, Comic and Tragic, pg. 243*7. "Nature's Above Art in that Respect": Limits of the Pastoral Pattern, pg. 284*8. Forms and Their Meanings: "Monumental Mock'ry", pg. 317*Epilogue, pg. 351*Index, pg. 363

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/03/2015
      ISBN13: 9780691618616, 978-0691618616
      ISBN10: 0691618615
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In this, her last book, Rosalie L. Colie suggests that by linking "forms"--verse forms, devices, motives, themes, conventions, genres--to the culture from which a writer springs and to his selection and organization of materials, we can understand the processes by which he becomes what he is, and is enabled to do what he does. She is particularly



      Table of Contents
      *Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. v*Note, pg. viii*Contents, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*1. Criticism and the Analysis of Craft: Love's Labour's Lost and the Sonnets, pg. 31*2. Mel and Sal: Some Problems in Sonnet-Theory, pg. 68*3. Othello and the Problematics of Love, pg. 135*4. Antony and Cleopatra: The Significance of Style, pg. 168*5. Hamlet: Reflections on an Anatomy of Melancholy, pg. 208*6. Perspectives on Pastoral: Romance, Comic and Tragic, pg. 243*7. "Nature's Above Art in that Respect": Limits of the Pastoral Pattern, pg. 284*8. Forms and Their Meanings: "Monumental Mock'ry", pg. 317*Epilogue, pg. 351*Index, pg. 363

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