Word: textualism
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...palace and lectures him like a boy, and the depth of Ophelia's passion at her father's death shows up his foolishness. He stabs Hamlet not as a desperate act on the part of an honorable man, but as the venal act of a fool. The textual validity of the interpretation is somewhat questionable; Hamlet, after all, thinks of Laertes as a "very noble youth." Callum, however, makes a consistent and plausible character...
Classified in Auden's terms, Monroe K. Spears, author of Disenchanted Island, mixes the qualities of the critic's critic and the maniac. As critic's critic, Spears approaches Auden through close textual study, drawing information from all of Auden's work, from the writers and musicians that influenced him, and from the poet's life. As maniac be is intensely concerned with Auden's language and symbolism. Yet Spear's study of Auden, while exhaustive, intelligent, and scholarly, is also unsatisfactory --unsatisfactory for people who read criticism of poetry in order to understand the poetry's appeal more fully...
...insistence that the Bible was a kind of magical authority. His oft-repeated statement, "The Bible says," leaves the impression that a simple reading of the scriptures will provide all the answers to life. Never a word is said about biblical criticism or the contemporary understanding of textual material. In the matter of authority, the teachings of the Church or the development of theology are never mentioned. Billy Graham gives to the Bible a kind of authority that would make even Martin Luther uncomfortable...
...second study would be a great mistake. To pursue the first, in one form,is the purpose of this spring's work in Marlowe and Shakespeare. If this work indicates anything useful about the nature of a course which might recognize officially a combination of textual study and stage presentation, such results would be interesting; but surely any formal proposal should be postponed until recognized problems are solved, if they can be. The range of potential achievement among Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates, working on theater as amateurs, is immense; nobody wants "an Olympian troupe in the Loeb disguised as students...
...last capacity as a writer, Seltzer is blocked by a lack of secondary material; "No one went home and wrote down that Burbage was good last night as Hamlet and why." Using textual and stage notes, Seltzer must infer what the Elizabethans felt was real in terms of acting. "Every age thinks its own are is real. But obviously the Globe player differs from the method actor. The ideal of realism begins in the mind of the artist. It's the old idea of imitating nature...