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- Title
Postured like a whore? Misreading Hermione's statue.
- Authors
LANGLEY, ERIC
- Abstract
This article responds to Harold Bloom's call to 'read for the clinamen'- an author's creative misprision of, or characteristic divergence from, the work of a literary antecedent - offering an account of Shakespeare's deviation from a number of influential or source texts in his The Winter's Tale. From Ovid's tale of Pygmalion to Marston's Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image; from Greene's Pandosto to Aretino's Sixteen Postures, I demonstrate how Shakespeare evokes then revokes these precursory texts, swerving from the potentially malign influence of his predecessors. Discussion concludes in analysis of the critical and intertextual over-determination of the statue scene.
- Subjects
WINTER'S Tale, The (Poem : Shakespeare); LUST in literature; HERMIONE (Greek mythology); PYGMALION (Greek mythology); GREEK mythology in literature; CHARACTERS of William Shakespeare; CONTENT analysis; STATUES in literature
- Publication
Renaissance Studies, 2013, Vol 27, Issue 3, p318
- ISSN
0269-1213
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1477-4658.2012.00810.x