Dramatic Lyrics - Couverture souple

Browning, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1409961850 ISBN 13 : 9781409961857

Editeur : Dodo Press, 2009

Synopsis

Robert Browning (1812-1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. Browning's fame today rests mainly on his dramatic monologues, in which the words not only convey setting and action but also reveal the speaker's character. Unlike a soliloquy, the meaning in a Browning dramatic monologue is not what the speaker directly reveals but what he inadvertently "gives away" about himself in the process of rationalizing past actions, or "special-pleading" his case to a silent auditor in the poem. Rather than thinking out loud, the character composes a self-defense which the reader, as "juror, " is challenged to see through. Browning chooses some of the most debased, extreme and even criminally psychotic characters, no doubt for the challenge of building a sympathetic case for a character who doesn't deserve one. One of his more sensational monologues is Porphyria's Lover (1836); however, My Last Duchess (1842) is the most frequently cited example of Browning's dramatic monologue form.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dodo Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1409961850
• ISBN 13: 9781409961857
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
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