Herbert Foltinek: Imagination All Compact: How Did Charles Dickens Compose His Novels? (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Sitzungsberichte, 733: Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Literaturwissenschaft, 25).
At the end of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Theseus offers a brief description of poetic practice: “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet / Are of imagination all compact / ... / And as imagination bodies forth / The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen / Turns them to shapes” (V.i); “compact” meaning “made up” or “composed”. Theseus supplies one of two approaches in Herbert Foltinek’s investigation of Dickens’s narrative technique, the “excess of imagination”. The other approach is “artistic control”; Foltinek finds this conventional, orderly compositional mode often to be at odds with imaginative exuberance.
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37307/j.1866-5381.2008.01.30 |
Lizenz: | ESV-Lizenz |
ISSN: | 1866-5381 |
Ausgabe / Jahr: | 1 / 2008 |
Veröffentlicht: | 2008-04-01 |