Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature - Couverture rigide

Rudrum, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1421410486 ISBN 13 : 9781421410487

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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. Rudrum casts a wide net that Cavell scholars as well as people interested in the philosophy of tragedy, aesthetics, and literary skepticism will find compelling.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David Rudrum is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Huddersfield. He is the editor of Literature and Philosophy: A Guide to Contemporary Debates and the coeditor of Supplanting the Postmodern: An Anthology of Writings on the Arts and Culture of the Early 21st Century.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1421410486
• ISBN 13: 9781421410487
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
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