dc.contributor.author | Weiser, David K. | eng |
dc.contributor.corporatename | University of Missouri Press | eng |
dc.date.issued | 1987 | eng |
dc.description | Includes indexes. | eng |
dc.description | Bibliography: pages 187-190. | eng |
dc.description.abstract | "This book is about poetry rather than theory. Shakespeare's poetry, I find, remains more relevant and more rewarding than any theory, however elaborate, as to who, if anyone, should read a text and, if so, how they should do it. In other words, I do not intend another prolegomena for future studies of the reader in the text and/ or the text in the reader. I simply have written what I think the sonnets are about, what they say and how they say it. I do not attempt to speak for "the reader," as I know little about him or her, but only for myself. What interests me especially is the behavior of Shakespeare's sonnet-speaker, the coherent psychological entity projected by the speaking voice in these poems. I do not identify that speaker with the historical William Shakespeare, knowing scarcely more about him than about "the reader." | eng |
dc.description.digitization | Digitized at the University of Missouri--Columbia MU Libraries Digitization Lab in 2012. Digitized at 600 dpi with Zeutschel, OS 15000 scanner. Access copy, available in MOspace, is 400 dpi, grayscale. | eng |
dc.description.tableofcontents | Ironies of awareness : the cosmic dimension ; The dry mock ; Dramatic irony -- Soliloquy sonnets : self-discovery ; Introspection ; Final statements -- Dialogue sonnets : four modes of address ; Four types of dialogue ; Sonnet 18 as dialogue -- Awareness lost : soliloquies ; Initial dialogues ; Later dialogues : the final breakdown -- Appendix. The sonnets classified by mode of address. | eng |
dc.format.extent | xiii, 195 pages | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10355/15731 | |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri Press | eng |
dc.relation.ispartof | University of Missouri Press (MU) | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcollection | University of Missouri Press | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri System. Office of Academic Affairs (UM). University of Missouri Press | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Sonnets, English -- History and criticism | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sonnets | eng |
dc.title | Mind in character : Shakespeare's speaker in the sonnets | eng |
dc.type | Book | eng |