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Stanley Cavell and the claim of literature /

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1421410486 (hardcover : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9781421410487 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Erroneous ISBN

1421410494 (electronic)

Erroneous ISBN

9781421410494 (electronic)

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Stanley Cavell and the claim of literature /

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

David Rudrum

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x, 285 pages ;

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24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Introduction: approaching the unapproachable -- Making sense(s) of Walden -- The avoidance of Shakespeare -- From the sublime to the ordinary: Stanley Cavell's Beckett -- How to do things with Wordsworth -- What did Cavell want of Poe? -- 'Politics as opposed to what?': social contract and marriage contract in A doll's house -- Tragedy's tragedies: between the skeptical and the ethical -- Conclusion: just an ordinary American tragedy

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"Stanley Cavell is widely recognized as one of America's most important contemporary philosophers. His writings have attracted considerable attention among literary critics and theorists. Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature is the first monograph to comprehensively address the importance of literature in Cavell's philosophy, and, in turn, the potential effect of his philosophy on contemporary literary criticism. David Rudrum dedicates a chapter to each of the principal writers that 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, Rudrum explores Cavell's ideas on the nature of reading; the relationships between 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." -- Publisher website

Cavell, Stanley,1926-2018-- Criticism and interpretation

Literature-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc

Literature-- Philosophy

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Rudrum, David,1974-

Date of Transaction

20131216234117.0

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