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Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature /
An analysis of the significance of literature in the work of one of America's most influential philosophers. Stanley Cavell is widely recognized as one of America's most important philosophers, and his legacy and writings continue to attract considerable attention among literary critics an...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | An analysis of the significance of literature in the work of one of America's most influential philosophers. Stanley Cavell is widely recognized as one of America's most important philosophers, and his legacy and writings continue to attract considerable attention among literary critics and theorists. This book addresses the importance of literature in Cavell's philosophy and, in turn, the potential effect of his philosophy on contemporary literary criticism. The author dedicates a chapter to each of the writers that principally occupy Cavell, including Shakespeare, Thoreau, Beckett, Wordsworth, Ibsen, and Poe, and incorporates chapters on tragedy, skepticism, ethics, and politics. Through detailed analysis of these works, the author explores Cavell's ideas on the nature of reading; the relationships among literary language, ordinary language, and performative language; the status of authors and characters; the link between tragedy and ethics; and the nature of political conversation in a democracy. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (304 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781421410494 |