TY - JOUR
T1 - Margaret Edson's Wit and the art of analogy
AU - Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith
PY - 2006/12
Y1 - 2006/12
N2 - Margaret Edson's play Wit, which embodies quotations from John Donne's metaphysical verse, has a macrostructure that is itself conceitlike. The play establishes contrasts, similarities, contrasts within the similarities, and further similarities within the contrasts, thus both dramatizing and interrogating wit and its instrument, conceit. I analyze the operation of this complex configuration in the relations between the two main physical-institutional spaces of the play (the hospital and the university); between both and the world of language, with its manifestations in two opposed yet parallel intertexts; and in the self-reflexive dramatization of the theatre/life analogy. The effect of these conceitlike techniques is to bridge the gulf between opposites, transforming "insuperable barriers" into thresholds.
AB - Margaret Edson's play Wit, which embodies quotations from John Donne's metaphysical verse, has a macrostructure that is itself conceitlike. The play establishes contrasts, similarities, contrasts within the similarities, and further similarities within the contrasts, thus both dramatizing and interrogating wit and its instrument, conceit. I analyze the operation of this complex configuration in the relations between the two main physical-institutional spaces of the play (the hospital and the university); between both and the world of language, with its manifestations in two opposed yet parallel intertexts; and in the self-reflexive dramatization of the theatre/life analogy. The effect of these conceitlike techniques is to bridge the gulf between opposites, transforming "insuperable barriers" into thresholds.
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AN - SCOPUS:61949197833
SN - 0039-4238
VL - 40
SP - 346-356+393
JO - Style
JF - Style
IS - 4
ER -