The Destiny of the Work of Art : Causes, Propositions, Shakespeare
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Saval, Peter Kishore. (2023). The Destiny of the Work of Art : Causes, Propositions, Shakespeare. Symploke. 31(1-2), pp. 363-378. https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2023.a914668
| Authors | Saval, Peter Kishore |
|---|---|
| Abstract | The categories of cause and effect have falsified our experience of art. To say that Agamemnon caused the anger of Achilles by depriving the hero of Briseis, that reading the story of Lancelot and Guinevere caused Paolo and Francesca to fall in love, is not entirely wrong but beside the point. Art discloses a mystery about the unfolding of life and destiny, and the language of causes abstracts from this mystery and impoverishes it. In the legend of Tristan and Iseult, the protagonists mistakenly drink a love potion that is meant for Mark of Cornwall instead. They fall in love (Strassburg 1984, 194–95). Did the love potion cause the lovers to fall in love? The very question is out of place. The Tristan and Iseult legend unfolds a tragedy for which the drinking of the potion is incidental. I have taken the terms incidental and destiny from Oswald Spengler. Spengler might agree with what I have said above. But Spengler names one artist, above all, as the exemplary dramatist of the "incidental." The artist is Shakespeare |
| Keywords | William Shakespeare; literary criticism; Early Modern Drama; cause; Proposition; effect |
| Year | 01 Jan 2023 |
| Journal | Symploke |
| Journal citation | 31 (1-2), pp. 363-378 |
| Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
| ISSN | 1069-0697 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2023.a914668 |
| Web address (URL) | https://muse-jhu-edu.eu1.proxy.openathens.net/article/914668 |
| Open access | Published as non-open access |
| Research or scholarly | Research |
| Page range | 363-378 |
| Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
| Output status | Published |
| Publication dates | |
| Online | 15 Dec 2023 |
| Publication process dates | |
| Deposited | 30 Aug 2024 |
| Additional information | © symplokē |
| Place of publication | United States |
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