Pericles (Vol. 51) | David Skeele (essay date 1998)
David Skeele (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: "Pericles Deconstructed," in Thwarting the Wayward Seas: A Critical and Theatrical History of Shakespeare's Pericles in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, University of Delaware Press, 1998, pp. 126-45.
[In the following excerpt, Skeele discusses textual unity in Pericles in the context of postmodern theories.]
"I do not fear the flaw. "
(act III, scene i)
One of the more pervasive images in current popular culture is that of the "channel surfer." In this image, a person (for some reason, usually a male)1 sits in the dark, staring glassily at a flickering television screen, while his hand clutches a remote control. As his finger presses down on the channel button, rhythmically, every two or three seconds, he is confronted by a quick succession of disconnected snapshots: "gangster-rap" video, wildlife documentary, sexy beer commercial,...
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