Stanley Cavell and the claim of literature /
Rudrum, David,1974-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: approaching the unapproachable -- Making sense(s) of Walden -- The avoidance of Shakespeare -- From the sublime to the ordinary: Stanley Cavell's Beckett -- How to do things with Wordsworth -- What did Cavell want of Poe? -- 'Politics as opposed to what?': social contract and marriage contract in A doll's house -- Tragedy's tragedies: between the skeptical and the ethical -- Conclusion: just an ordinary American tragedy.
Cavell, Stanley, 1926-
Literature
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