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Article: "The hunger of the imagination": discordia concors in Emma.(Miscellany)(Critical essay)
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- Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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A TRUISM IN POST-MODERN CRITICISM holds that the world, and hence literature, is composed of binary opposites. But binary opposition is no new discovery. The healing power of balance between opposites can be traced to ancient times and the discordia concors, often called concordia discourse, the little war of opposed qualities which can result in harmony. In Discordia Concors: The Wit of Metaphysical Poetry, Melissa Wanamaker traces the concept to Greek and Roman writers such as Horace and Virgil and finds it basic to the thinking of British metaphysical poets. Wanamaker discusses two approaches to discordia concors in her study of seventeenth-century poetry. The first ...
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