The path to which wild error leads
A LucretianComedy of Errors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5726876 |
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| Authors | Eric Langley (Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 161-187 |
| Publication date | 2014-02-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Textual Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-236X • E-ISSN: 1470-1308 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0950236x.2013.835744 |
| OpenAlex | W2072365505 |
| Language | EN |
Disrupting the causal progress of his comic design, Shakespeare's narrative swerve introduces the accidental into a teleological plot, allowing the errancy of individual will while promoting new energetic narrative structure. Offering a Lucretian reading of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, I consider how the playwright's complex association of identity, chance, and genre can be informed by philosophical atomism, approached along the trajectory of a readerly clinamen
Accidental · Aesthetics · Art · Comedy · Comics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Physics · Teleology · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Highly cited | No |
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