Charm in Literature from Classical to Modernism Charmed Life
Charm in Literature from Classical to Modernism: Charmed Life discusses charm as both an emotional and aesthetic phenomenon. Beginning with the first appearance of literary charm in the Sirens episode of the Odyssey, Richard Beckman traces charm
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Charmed Life
Richard Beckman
Charm in Literature from Classical to Modernism
Richard Beckman
Charm in Literature from Classical to Modernism Charmed Life
Richard Beckman Temple University Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Macbeth: Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests. I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born. Macduff: Despair thy charm… Macduff was from his mother’s womb Untimely ripp’d.
For: Helen, Peregrine, and Luba
Contents
1 Preface 1 2 The Sirens in Homer 5 3 Charm in Chaucer 15 4 Spenser Versus Charm 19 5 Shakespeare and Charm 25 6 Milton and Dryden 49 7 Pope 53 8 Charm Transfigured 57 9 Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron 59 10 Gaskell, Thackeray, and Joyce 85 11 Acerbic Charm; Ludic Charm 87 12 Proust 91 ix
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13 Charm and Cleverness in Joyce127 14 Mann’s Felix Krull139 Bibliography153 Index155
CHAPTER 1
Preface
Abstract This study discusses the word and the concept of charm in canonical literature and in everyday use. The meaning of charm metamorphoses with each appearance over millennia, its sense, pejorative or favorable, deployed to suggest a quality either delightful or entrapping. Its significance in classics old and recent is remarked on classics from Homer to Joyce. It is a vital word in literature and journalism, with its sense and its standing mercurial. Charm is
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