Succeeding King Lear : : Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics / / Emily Sun.
This book investigates Shakespeare's King Lear and its originative power in modern literature with specific attention to the early work of English Romantic poet William Wordsworth and to the American writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans's 1941 collaboration, Let Us Now Praise Fa...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) :; 7 Illustrations, black and white |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Shakespeare
- 1. Sovereignty, Exposure, Theater: A Reading of King Lear
- II. Wordsworth
- 2. Wordsworth on the Heath: Tragedy, Autobiography, and the Revolutionary Spectator
- 3. Poetry against Indifference: Responding to ‘‘The Discharged Soldier’’
- III. Agee and Evans
- 4. From the Division of Labor to the Discovery of the Common: James Agee and Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- Notes
- Index