John Gay's The Beggar's OperaHarold Bloom Chelsea House Publishers, 1988 - 143 Seiten |
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... moral judg- ment and accept the comic ease of this world , where the " paradox of trade and morality ” is so easily resolved into the values of trade and the gestures of morality . In this aspect , it is like those comic and pastoral ...
... moral judg- ment and accept the comic ease of this world , where the " paradox of trade and morality ” is so easily resolved into the values of trade and the gestures of morality . In this aspect , it is like those comic and pastoral ...
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... moral clarity that we can hardly reject them . Thus the senior Peachums , under- handed , self - seeking , treacherous as they are , can convince us mo- mentarily that the evils they abundantly demonstrate are merely natural ...
... moral clarity that we can hardly reject them . Thus the senior Peachums , under- handed , self - seeking , treacherous as they are , can convince us mo- mentarily that the evils they abundantly demonstrate are merely natural ...
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... moral " attacks on modernism of a Lukacs or a Winters . For it is the same Hanoverian Whigs who established the ascendency of the gallows , who , with moral argu- ments ( but , more blatantly , political purposes ) , established the Li ...
... moral " attacks on modernism of a Lukacs or a Winters . For it is the same Hanoverian Whigs who established the ascendency of the gallows , who , with moral argu- ments ( but , more blatantly , political purposes ) , established the Li ...
Inhalt
Mockpastoral as the Cult | 5 |
Mercenary Fathers Possessive Daughters | 37 |
The Beggars Triumph | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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