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Imagery in the tragedies of George Chapman
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Demers, Patricia |
| Copyright Year | 1974 |
| Abstract | Through a survey of the understanding of imagery and the popularity of emblem literature in Chapman's day, along with an outline of the salient images in his poems, translations, and comedies, this study backgrounds its analysis of the imagistic worlds of his tragedies with a theoretical and practical view of Chapman's "word-pictures." Written in an age of renowned dramatic imagists and nascent English criticism, his tragedies both mirror this contemporaneity and retain their ethical creator's distinctiveness. Moreover, in their linking of symbol with fact and in their pictorial vividness, the outstanding images of these plays are primarily emblematic. They reiterate and extend the concerns of his earlier writing, but, most importantly, they create the world of each play. This study provides an investigation of these tragic worlds. Their range and multeity are impressive, encompassing the prominence of the tree, the ship, and the statue in Bussy's world of primal noblesse and postlapsarian policy, the drizzling nadir of Byron's evaporated honour, the non-spontaneous fixity of Bussy's avenger, the absolute Clermont, the forensic furnace of Chabot's heart-deadening trial, and the eternal opposition of the stoic and the strategist in a philosophically recreated Rome, v/hile linked together as expositions of a single soul in an inimical universe, the tragedies remain, however, attractingly separate and unique. For the careful reader and image hunter, "the understander," their perceptions about the dilemmas facing virtue, nobility, integrity, and honour in an incredulous, pragmatic, or openly hostile world also yield insights concerning the multi-talented but non-serene mind of their poet-creator. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In addition to my gratitude for the patient corrections and helpful suggestions of my supervisor, I am also indebted to those professors of graduate courses at the University of Ottawa, Dr. A. P. Campbell, Dr. J. A. Lramer, Dr. H. M. Pollard, Dr. R. N. Pollard, and Dr. R. St-Jacques, whose teaching, association, and encouragement have provided me with valuable and sustaining resources. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.20381/ruor-8954 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://ruor.uottawa.ca/bitstream/10393/21431/1/DC53917.PDF |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-8954 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
