Materialist Criticism and Cordelias Quasi-Resurrection in King Lear
نام عام مواد
[Article]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Sean Benson
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
"This essay examines King Lear's belief that the dead Cordelia revives or resuscitates near the very end of the play. This quasi-resurrection, which occurs only in the First Folio (1623), has divided critics into those who regard the moment as mere delusion and others who see it as adumbrating a moment of blessed release. Following a survey of these "redemptionist" versus the predominant nihilist-oriented readings of the play, I examine the influential materialist interpretations offered by Stephen Greenblatt and Jonathan Dollimore. Both insist that Cordelia's quasi-resurrection, since it never reaches fruition, frustrates a religious understanding of the play. (Materialist criticism only counts tangible rewards as meaningful.) The play, however, is more consistent with Hans-Georg Gadamer's view that tragedy overwhelms us with its suffering rather than promotes this-worldly justice. Cordelia's quasi-resurrection gestures towards a possible otherworldly redemption even as it reminds audiences of the Resurrection that, in Lear's pagan world, cannot be replicated. Shakespeare's anachronisms thus superimpose the Christian resurrectionary tradition on the pagan setting of the play; his doing so places the hope and despair of the final scene-the contrast between their transcendent aspirations and the mundane reality of their unresurrected corpses-in the delicate equipoise of his art."
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2007
توصيف ظاهري
436-453
عنوان
Religion and the Arts
شماره جلد
11/3-4
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1568-5292
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Art History
اصطلاح موضوعی
CHRISTIANITY
اصطلاح موضوعی
Comparative Religion & Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
General
اصطلاح موضوعی
History
اصطلاح موضوعی
KING LEAR
اصطلاح موضوعی
MATERIALISM
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
RESURRECTION
اصطلاح موضوعی
SHAKESPEARE
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