9780801426421 - Generosity and the Limits of Authority: Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton di Flesch, William (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Never read, no marks or highlighting in the book. Our copy is hardback, with a dust jacket, showing light shelf-wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. Cornell University Press hardcover in dust jacket, 1992, 1st edition/1st printing, unused and carefully stored, No remainder marks or "shelf wear"; as New/as New. We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble-wrap the book and ship it in a BOX with delivery confirmation/tracking.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Hardcover. xiii, 271pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

Condizione: very good. Ithaca : Cornell University Press,1992. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. xii,279 pp. Index. - Generosity is an ambiguous quality, William Flesch observes; while receiving gifts is pleasant, gift-giving both displays the wealth and strength of the giver and places the receiver under an obligation. In provocative new readings of Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton, Flesch illuminates the personal authority that is bound inextricably with acts of generosity. Drawing on the work of such theorists as Mauss, Blanchot, Bourdieu, Wittgenstein, Bloom, Cavell, and Greenblatt, Flesch maintains that the literary power of Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton is at its most intense when they are exploring the limits of generosity. He considers how in Herbert's Temple divine assurance of the possibility of redemption is put into question and how the poet approaches such a gift with the ambivalence of a beneficiary. In his readings of Shakespeare's Richard II, Henry IV, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, and the sonnets, Flesch examines the perspective of the benefactor - including Shakespeare himself - who confronts the decline of his capacity to give. Turning to Milton's Paradise Lost, Flesch identifies two opposing ways of understanding generosity - Satan's, on the one hand, and Adam and Eve's, on the other - and elaborates the different conceptions of poetry to which these understandings give rise. Scholars of Shakespeare and of Renaissance culture, Miltonists, literary theorists, and others interested in the relationship between philosophy and literature will want to read this insightful and challenging book. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780801426421. Keywords : , Herbert, George (1593-1633) Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Milton, John (1608-1674).

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