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Title: UNI-VERSE


1
UNI-VERSE
  • A brief discussion of genre
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy
  • Romance

2
FUZZY CATEGORIES
  • The best actors in the world, either for tragedy,
    comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical,
    historical-pastoral, tragical-historical,
    tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene
    individable, or poem unlimited.
  • (Hamlet, 2.2.391-4)

3
TRAGEDY Division and Displacement
  • Conflict between
  • Honour and Duty
  • Surface and Substance
  • Social world and individual desire
  • Nature and nature
  • Providence and will

4
TIME IS OUT OF JOINT
5
COMEDY DELIGHT
  • for delight we scarcely do, but in things that
    have a conveniency to ourselves, or to the
    general nature laughter almost ever comes of
    things most disproportioned to ourselves and
    nature. Delight hath a joy in it, either
    permanent or present.
  • (Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry)

6
COMEDY Decorum Celestial Spheres
7
COMEDY RECONCILIATION
8
ROMANCE
  • Er no.

9
ROMANCE Heightened Reality
  • Magical forces
  • Moral allegory
  • Court intrigue
  • Mistaken identity
  • Interimplication of the mundane and the mystical
  • Mutual influence
  • Resolution of mundane problems by supernatural
    means

10
Tragedy, Comedy, Romance and Reading
  • HERMENEUTICS a mode of inquiry based on a
    metaphor of DIS-COVERY or exposure of an interior
    truth.
  • Assumes that
  • A truth exists
  • a stable reality
  • mis-reading can be corrected by proper
    application of skill OR inspiration

11
Tragedy, Comedy Hermeneutics
  • TRAGEDY
  • Faulty or indeterminate hermeneutics
  • Opacity or confusion of signs
  • POLYSEMY
  • COMEDY
  • Functional hermeneutics
  • Transparency of signs
  • Unified meaning

12
Romance/Tragi-comedy
  • Corrective hermeneutics
  • Magic/supernatural perspective corrects human
    error
  • Allegorical model harmonizes nature and Nature
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