Stanley Cavell's American Dream: Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Hollywood MoviesFordham Univ Press, 2006 - 248 Seiten 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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... argument and interpretation in particular fields . Cavell's genteel description of his Shakespeare criticism as " amateur forays " into that field of study awakened Richard Halpern's skepticism , for Cavell's reputation as a philosopher ...
... argument and interpretation in particular fields . Cavell's genteel description of his Shakespeare criticism as " amateur forays " into that field of study awakened Richard Halpern's skepticism , for Cavell's reputation as a philosopher ...
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... argument " appears in " Knowing and Ac- knowledging , " a virtual companion piece to his essay on King Lear , feels ... arguments from ordinary language philoso- phy that fundamental premises in new historicist writings like this piece ...
... argument " appears in " Knowing and Ac- knowledging , " a virtual companion piece to his essay on King Lear , feels ... arguments from ordinary language philoso- phy that fundamental premises in new historicist writings like this piece ...
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... argument . Philosophy should not merely seek in the arts in- stances of the points it aims to convey . Different arts have their own ways of making their points , and translation of artistic expression into argu- ment reductively ...
... argument . Philosophy should not merely seek in the arts in- stances of the points it aims to convey . Different arts have their own ways of making their points , and translation of artistic expression into argu- ment reductively ...
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... argument is played by taking complete responsibility for one's own discourse , although this keen sense of discursive accountability im- plies no private ownership of the language one employs . Emerson and Thoreau exemplify this ...
... argument is played by taking complete responsibility for one's own discourse , although this keen sense of discursive accountability im- plies no private ownership of the language one employs . Emerson and Thoreau exemplify this ...
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... argument that Cavell advances in Contesting Tears defines melodrama as a genre that purposefully trades in emotional excess . Its hyperbolic gestures aim to open hearts otherwise inclined to lose touch with cur- rents of feeling whose ...
... argument that Cavell advances in Contesting Tears defines melodrama as a genre that purposefully trades in emotional excess . Its hyperbolic gestures aim to open hearts otherwise inclined to lose touch with cur- rents of feeling whose ...
Inhalt
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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 |
Index | 241 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acknowledge American Antony argument Band Wagon become Binx Binx's Bloom calls Cambridge Cary Grant Cavell finds Cavell's Cavell's essay Cavell's reading Cavell's writing challenge characterizes Cities of Words Claim of Reason Cleopatra comedy of remarriage Contesting Tears context course criticism culture Descartes despite DiBattista Disowning Knowledge Emerson Emerson's Transcendental Etudes Emersonian Engle Essays and Poems experience expression film genre Gooding-Williams Hamlet Harold Bloom Harvard University Press Hermione Hermione's Hollywood comedy Hollywood movies human Ibid idea interpretation Justin Hodge King Lear Larkin's Leontes literary marriage melodrama Milton Montaigne Montaigne's moods moral Moreover Moviegoer Nietzsche North by Northwest occasion ordinary language philosophy Othello perfectionism perhaps perspective Philadelphia Story philosophy phrase play play's Pursuits of Happiness question remarriage comedy Renaissance response reveals Rorty scholar seeks Self-Reliance sense Shakespeare skepticism sonnet sort Stanley Cavell Stella Dallas texts thinking Thoreau Thornhill tion Tracy turn Walker Percy Winter's Tale Wittgenstein York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 53 - And for the usual method of teaching arts, I deem it to be an old error of universities, not yet well recovered from the scholastic grossness of barbarous ages, that instead of beginning with arts most easy (and those be such as are most obvious to the sense), they present their young unmatriculated novices at first coming with the most intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics...
Seite 120 - It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist. That discovery is called the Fall of Man. Ever afterwards, we suspect our instruments.
Seite 158 - A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function. Each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present...
Seite 194 - We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.
Seite 92 - These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
Seite 179 - ... forever, Free as an Arab Of thy beloved. Cling with life to the maid; But when the surprise, First vague shadow of surmise Flits across her bosom young, Of a joy apart from thee, Free be she, fancy-free; Nor thou detain her vesture's hem, Nor the palest rose she flung From her summer diadem. Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Though her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive; Heartily know, When half-gods go. The gods arrive.
Seite 93 - Well, most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars.