Resumen de Crying fire in a theatre: auden's harlequinades
W. H. Auden's writings engage in a self-conscious frivolity which is always alert to the serious. The playfulness of his language mirrors the vulnerability of the community it formulates, but his writing also engages in "verbal playing" for its own sake, dislocating established forms into indeterminacy, heterogeneity and difference. The essay explores Auden's transgressive deployment of the carnivalesque as a Dionysian joker "emigrating from weakness", to expose the tensions and dualities underlying modernist positions.
