Succeeding King Lear
Subtitle: literature, exposure, and the possibility of politics
By: Emily Sun
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780823232802; 9780823232826
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Sovereignty in literature; Politics and literature; Influence; Politics in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Shakespeare. Sovereignty, exposure, theater: a reading of King Lear; title: Wordsworth. Wordsworth on the heath: tragedy, autobiography, and the revolutionary spectator; Poetry against indifference : responding to "The discharged soldier"; title: Agee and Evans. From the division of labor to the discovery of the common: James Agee and Walker Evans's Let us now praise famous men.