Reserved Character: Shorthand and the Immortality Topos in Shakespeare's Sonnets.
Shakespeare's sonnets lay claim to a quality of liveliness as both an effect of reading and an intrinsic feature of the verse that parallels the physical life of the human body. In this essay, I will argue that the term character provides one way to conceptualize both the sonnets' internal aspiratio...
| Publicado en: | Studies in Philology Vol. 116; no. 3; pp. 478 - 506 |
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