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Coirolanus

R Coriolanus

Coriolanus, who acted out of pride rather than duty, is an obvious example of a man locked in the prison of his own self. He led the enemy against his native city out of injured pride (cf. Shakespeare, Coriolanus). (NA)

  →Title of “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar”Title of "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" linguistic analysis The syntactic parallelism of the title is striking, and in that particularly the presence of a colon. The syntactic structures of the title's two constituents are exactly the same -…Click for the full annotation →
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