Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature - Couverture souple

Rudrum, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1421429020 ISBN 13 : 9781421429021

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

Synopsis

An analysis of the significance of literature in the work of one of America's most influential contemporary philosophers.

Stanley Cavell is widely recognized as one of America's most important contemporary philosophers, and his legacy and writings continue to attract considerable attention among literary critics and theorists. Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature comprehensively addresses 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 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, Rudrum 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.

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: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1421429020
• ISBN 13: 9781421429021
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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