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Stanley Cavell's American Dream: Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Hollywood Movies

Stanley Cavell's American Dream: Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Hollywood Movies

Rhu, Lawrence F.
Cavell, Stanley

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismFilm Studies

ISBN10: 0823225968
ISBN13: 9780823225965
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: May 15 2006
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
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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