Joy of the worm : suicide and pleasure in early modern English literature /
Voluntary death in literature is not always a matter of tragedy. Drew Daniel identifies a surprisingly common aesthetic attitude that he calls "the joy of the worm," after Cleopatra's embrace of the deadly asp in Shakespeare's play, a pattern where voluntary death is imagined as...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Thinking literature.
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Evans: Library Stacks
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PR408.S845 D36 2022 |
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