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- Title
'WHAT HANDS ARE HERE?' THE HAND AS GENERATIVE SYMBOL IN MACBETH.
- Authors
Lynch, Kathryn L.
- Abstract
This article reports that medieval poetic theory seems to have picked up hierarchy of intellect and hand, in which the hand serves the artist's archetype or conception by bringing it to physical birth. Acts of human and divine creativity were both commonly expressed as transformations from the ineffable or immaterial to the material and both regularly culminated in an action of the hand. The artist's soul was an upright one and his fancy or imagination submitted itself to the dictates of God and reason, his art could render the highest reaches of truth available to man. It is through the capacity of his hand, then, that the Creator offers man the opportunity to make his contribution to a larger design, not only to exist and to contemplate truth but actively to represent it.
- Subjects
MEDIEVAL poetry; INTELLECT; ABILITY; ARCHETYPE (Psychology) in literature; IMAGINATION; CREATIVE ability
- Publication
Review of English Studies, 1988, Vol 39, Issue 153, p29
- ISSN
0034-6551
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/res/XXXIX.153.29