Stanley Cavell's American Dream: Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Hollywood MoviesFordham Univ Press, 2006 - 248 páginas This book explores Cavell's writings along converging lines of thought rather than in isolated categories. The author claims that, after Cavell's celebrated reading of King Lear turned into a nightmarish meditation on Vietnam, he found a more audible voice. Noting that Cavell's keen ear for the expressive power of ordinary language makes him both a first-rate literary artist and a compelling philosopher of the everyday, he catches what holds Cavell's manifold interests together. Here the poetry of ideas and presence of mind that animate Cavell's writing receive readings attuned to the spirit of their composition and its enlivening powers. |
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Página xi
... effort , and help has come in abundance , often from unforeseeable sources . I met Stanley Cavell by playing hooky from my dissertation on Torquato Tasso and sitting in on his seminar about Hollywood melodrama . As he has helped me ...
... effort , and help has come in abundance , often from unforeseeable sources . I met Stanley Cavell by playing hooky from my dissertation on Torquato Tasso and sitting in on his seminar about Hollywood melodrama . As he has helped me ...
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... efforts . David Mikics has given so generously and intelligently of his attention that I am tempted to drift beyond gratitude into wonder at his willingness to help . It has been invaluable . The NEH Emerson Institute at St. John's ...
... efforts . David Mikics has given so generously and intelligently of his attention that I am tempted to drift beyond gratitude into wonder at his willingness to help . It has been invaluable . The NEH Emerson Institute at St. John's ...
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... effort to venture a different course . He does , however , note that I myself have encouraged a certain idea of ... Efforts to integrate a body of thought run XV Foreword.
... effort to venture a different course . He does , however , note that I myself have encouraged a certain idea of ... Efforts to integrate a body of thought run XV Foreword.
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Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Hollywood Movies Lawrence F. Rhu. implications . Efforts to integrate a body of thought run the risk of reduc- ing it to a settled , repetitive frame of concern . I am happy to report that I find no such ...
Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Hollywood Movies Lawrence F. Rhu. implications . Efforts to integrate a body of thought run the risk of reduc- ing it to a settled , repetitive frame of concern . I am happy to report that I find no such ...
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... efforts to achieve audibly Ameri- can voices . Similarly , the wonder to which Binx Bolling awakens and responds in The Moviegoer by Walker Percy looks precisely like what Cavell calls thinking in both its active and passive modes of ...
... efforts to achieve audibly Ameri- can voices . Similarly , the wonder to which Binx Bolling awakens and responds in The Moviegoer by Walker Percy looks precisely like what Cavell calls thinking in both its active and passive modes of ...
Contenido
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Meeting Places | 24 |
On Bloom and Cavell on Shakespeare | 60 |
From Skepticism to Perfectionism | 83 |
From Cyprus to Rushmore | 105 |
Reading Cavell Reading The Winters Tale | 136 |
Cavells Rome | 172 |
Notes | 211 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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