| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Part I: Shakespeare. Sovereignty, exposure, theater: a reading of King Lear -- Part II: Wordsworth. Wordsworth on the heath: tragedy, autobiography, and the revolutionary spectator -- Poetry against indifference -- Part III: Agee and Evans. From the division of labor to the discovery of the common: James Agee and Walker Evans's Let us now praise famous men |
| Summary |
This book investigates Shakespeare's King Lear and its originative power in modern literature with specific attention to the early work of English Romantic poet William Wordsworth and to the American writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans's 1941 collaboration, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. It examines how these later readers return to the play to interrogate emphatically the question of the relations between literature and politics in modernity and to initiate in this way their own creative trajectories. King Lear opens up a literary genealogy or history of successors, at the heart an |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence.
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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Agee, James, 1909-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Evans, Walker, 1903-1975 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear.
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Evans, Walker, 1903-1975 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Agee, James, 1909-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear
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Agee, James, 1909-1955 fast |
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Evans, Walker, 1903-1975 fast |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 fast |
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Shakespeare, William -- King Lear -- Rezeption. idsbb |
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Agee, James -- Let us now praise famous men -- Quellen und Vorbilder. idsbb |
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Evans, Walker -- Let us now praise famous men -- Quellen und Vorbilder. idsbb |
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Wordsworth, William -- Quellen und Vorbilder. idsbb |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- influenser. sao |
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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- analys och tolkning. sao |
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Agee, James, 1909-1955 -- analys och tolkning. sao |
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Evans, Walker, 1903-1975 -- analys och tolkning. sao |
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King Lear (Shakespeare, William) fast |
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Sovereignty in literature.
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Politics and literature.
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Politics in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Politics and literature
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Politics in literature
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Sovereignty in literature
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Politik i litteraturen.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010013604 |
| ISBN |
9780823241163 |
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0823241165 |
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9780823232826 |
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0823232824 |
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9780823249282 |
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082324928X |
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9780823249145 |
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082324914X |
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