Stanley Cavell's American dream : Shakespeare, philosophy, and Hollywood movies / [electronic resource]
Rhu, Lawrence F.
Ashland, Ohio : Fordham University Press,
2006.
"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."--Publisher's website.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-239) and index.
Lost in space or right at home? -- Macbeth and Gaslight : new historicism and feminism -- Beyond adaptation : Walker Percy and Stanley Cavell -- The Green World and general education -- Subject and object -- Now, Voyager -- Temporary idolatry -- The sublime and the pedestrian -- Shame and the origins of a calling -- Milton at the Movies -- Consent -- Common backgrounds -- Emersonian differences -- King Lear in their time -- Stella Dallas and a thousand acres -- Shame, shamelessness, and the uses of Shakespeare -- Stanley Cavell's Renaissance skepticism -- Emerson; or, the skeptic and the perfectionist -- Perfection's heirs -- Sidney and Larkin : a perfectionist reading -- Othello and The Philadelphia Story -- Emerson and receptivity -- North by Northwest and Hamlet -- An epistemology of moods -- Shakespeare, Sturges, and Rohmer -- Remarriage comedy and the myth of the Fall -- The Lady Eve -- Antony and Cleopatra : the withdrawal of the world -- Current and source -- What's the use of calling Shakespeare a pragmatist? -- Coriolanus and Sidney's poetics -- Fred Astaire and racial differences -- The oldest profession
"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."--Publisher's website.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Description based on print version record.
Cavell, Stanley, 1926-
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Philosophy.
Motion pictures.
Philosophy
Motion pictures
Philosophy & Religion
Philosophy