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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... stand or fall on their own terms as exercises in practical criticism of individual works . He is also deeply inquisitive about the relations between philosophy and literature , and especially concerned about the role of examples in ...
... stand or fall on their own terms as exercises in practical criticism of individual works . He is also deeply inquisitive about the relations between philosophy and literature , and especially concerned about the role of examples in ...
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... standing in an unexamined relationship to the figures he views on screen . Those who have read his film criticism know that , if not " everything , " at least a great deal , that " philosophy has said about reality and its ...
... standing in an unexamined relationship to the figures he views on screen . Those who have read his film criticism know that , if not " everything , " at least a great deal , that " philosophy has said about reality and its ...
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... stands for , and this sense of his " reality " ( for us ) exemplifies the kind of response that Cavell's critics target ... stand in apparent isolation against the backdrop of the heavens . Indeed the film promptly includes such a viewer ...
... stands for , and this sense of his " reality " ( for us ) exemplifies the kind of response that Cavell's critics target ... stand in apparent isolation against the backdrop of the heavens . Indeed the film promptly includes such a viewer ...
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... stand as a rebuke to the actual world we inhabit . There the inevitable ambiguities and misunderstandings of verbal communication become opportunities for malefaction , both by design and by accident ; and marriage can be- come , in ...
... stand as a rebuke to the actual world we inhabit . There the inevitable ambiguities and misunderstandings of verbal communication become opportunities for malefaction , both by design and by accident ; and marriage can be- come , in ...
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... standing coolly apart has its hazards as well . Though fools rush in where angels fear to tread , we do not have wings , so we may need to make the most of our folly . Taking instruction from our mistakes can turn our errors into a ...
... standing coolly apart has its hazards as well . Though fools rush in where angels fear to tread , we do not have wings , so we may need to make the most of our folly . Taking instruction from our mistakes can turn our errors into a ...
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.