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Roget’s Thesaurus (1987) gives two options for ‘conflict’: ‘contrariety’ and ‘quarrel’. The first term gives a list of near synonyms which range from words illustrating differences in opinion, such as ‘disagreement’, and those referring to situations in which some kind of value clash or personal hostility is present, such as ‘antagonism’ or ‘irreconcilability’, to those illustrating linguistic, semantic and rhetorical contraposition, such as ‘inconsistency’, ‘antonym’ or ‘antithesis’. The second term, concentrating more specifically on the semantic field of ‘quarrel’, obviously includes, alongside other close synonyms, ‘war’ and ‘warfare’.
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John Keats, Letter to his brothers, 21 December 1817, in The Romantics on Shakespeare, ed. by Jonathan Bate (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992), 198; italics mine.
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Nathan Scott, Negative Capability: Studies in the New Literature and the Religious Situation (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969), xiii.
Martin Heidegger, Discourse on Thinking (New York: Harper & Row, 1966). The 1959 German edition appeared in a small volume entitled Gelassenheit.
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Pugliatti, P. (2013). Introduction. In: Dente, C., Soncini, S. (eds) Shakespeare and Conflict. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137311344_2
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