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Stanley Cavell's American dream : Shakespeare, philosophy, and Hollywood movies /
This book states that, after Cavell's celebrated reading of 'King Lear' turned into a nightmarish meditation on Vietnam, he found a more audible voice. Here, the poetry of ideas and presence of mind that animate Cavell's writing receive readings attuned to the spirit of their com...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ashland, Ohio :
Fordham University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Lost in space or right at home?
- Macbeth and Gaslight : new historicism and feminism
- Beyond adaptation : Walker Percy and Stanley Cavell
- The Green World and general education
- Subject and object
- Now, Voyager
- Temporary idolatry
- The sublime and the pedestrian
- Shame and the origins of a calling
- Milton at the Movies
- Consent
- Common backgrounds
- Emersonian differences
- King Lear in their time
- Stella Dallas and a thousand acres
- Shame, shamelessness, and the uses of Shakespeare
- Stanley Cavell's Renaissance skepticism
- Emerson; or, the skeptic and the perfectionist
- Perfection's heirs
- Sidney and Larkin : a perfectionist reading
- Othello and The Philadelphia Story
- Emerson and receptivity
- North by Northwest and Hamlet
- An epistemology of moods
- Shakespeare, Sturges, and Rohmer
- Remarriage comedy and the myth of the Fall
- The Lady Eve
- Antony and Cleopatra : the withdrawal of the world
- Current and source
- What's the use of calling Shakespeare a pragmatist?
- Coriolanus and Sidney's poetics
- Fred Astaire and racial differences
- The oldest profession.