The Tragic Imagination In Shakespeare And Emerson

Author : Andy Amato
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350373583
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragic Imagination in Shakespeare and Emerson written by Andy Amato and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the “tragic imagination”? And what role does it play in the works of William Shakespeare and Ralph Waldo Emerson? Explaining the tragic imagination as a creative faculty employed to answer the perennial Riddle of the Sphinx – a theory of the world that advances human freedom and dignity in the face of historical injustice, cruelty and violence – Andy Amato seeks to recover and rehabilitate this concept by revealing its significance to both key works of philosophy and literature and our contemporary world. This book begins with a close and careful reading of Emerson's first major work, Nature, in conversation with nineteenth and 20thcentury continental philosophy, critical theory and post-structuralism. Uncovering neglected elements of Emerson's philosophy, beyond his reputation as the philosopher of 'cheer', this book explores how Emersonian transcendentalism affirms rather than denies the tragic sense of life – “tragic idealism” – and makes a substantial contribution to philosophy's perpetual endeavour to solve the Riddle. In the second part of the book, Amato then employs Emerson's theoretical lens to interpret Shakespeare's tragedy, King Lear. In doing so, he innovatively reframes the central themes of suffering, vision, nature, nothing, foolishness and silence toward achieving liberation. By pairing these two giants of literature and philosophy, The Tragic Imagination in Shakespeare and Emerson not only offers fresh interpretations of Nature and King Lear, but also makes the case for the renewed deployment of tragic imagination, in creative redress, to our current social-political situation.

Author : Nicholas Grene
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312161842
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Tragic Imagination written by Nicholas Grene and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of Macbeth, with its absolutes of good and evil, seems very remote from the shifting perspectives of Antony and Cleopatra, or the psychological and political realities of Coriolanus. Yet all three plays share similar thematic concerns and preoccupations: the relations of power to legitimating authority, for instance, or of male and female roles in the imagination of (male) heoric endeavour. In this acclaimed study, Nicholas Grene shows how all nine plays written in Shakespeare's main tragic period display this combination of strikingly different milieu balanced by thematic interrelationships. Taking the English history play as his starting point, he argues that Shakespeare established two different modes of imagining: the one mythic and visionary, the other sceptical and analytic. In the tragic plays that followed, themes and situations are dramatised, alternately, in sacred and secular worlds. A chapter is devoted to each tragedy, but with a continuing awareness of companion plays: the analysis of Julius Caesar informing that of Hamlet, discussion of Troilus and Cressida counterpointed by the critique of Othello and the treatment of King Lear growing out from the limiations of Timon of Athens. The aim is to resist homogenising the plays but to recognise and explore the unique imaginative enterprise from which they arose.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emerson on Shakespeare written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sam McGuire Worley
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791448267
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emerson, Thoreau, and the Role of the Cultural Critic written by Sam McGuire Worley and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinterprets important works of the social criticism of Emerson and Thoreau as being based in defense of community.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emerson on Shakespeare from His Essays on Representative Men written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael J. C. Echeruo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conditioned Imagination from Shakespeare to Conrad written by Michael J. C. Echeruo and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Rawlings
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441121072
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emerson, Melville, James, Berryman written by Peter Rawlings and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare's reception by major American writers and poets.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
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Download or read book The Tragedy of Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681375729
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts written by Edith Wharton and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elegantly hair-raising collection of Edith Wharton's ghost stories, selected and with a preface written by the author herself. No history of the American uncanny tale would be complete without mention of Edith Wharton, yet many of Wharton’s most dedicated admirers are unaware that she was a master of the form. In fact, one of Wharton’s final literary acts was assembling Ghosts, a personal selection of her most chilling stories, written between 1902 and 1937. In “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell,” the earliest tale included here, a servant’s dedication to her mistress continues from beyond the grave, and in “All Souls,” the last story Wharton wrote, an elderly woman treads the permeable line between life and the hereafter. In all her writing, Wharton’s great gift was to mercilessly illuminate the motives of men and women, and her ghost stories never stray far from the preoccupations of the living, using the supernatural to investigate such worldly matters as violence within marriage, the horrors of aging, the rot at the root of new fortunes, the darkness that stares back from the abyss of one’s own soul. These are stories to “send a cold shiver down one’s spine,” not to terrify, and as Wharton explains in her preface, her goal in writing them was to counter “the hard grind of modern speeding-up” by preserving that ineffable space of “silence and continuity,” which is not merely the prerogative of humanity but—“in the fun of the shudder”—its delight. Contents All Souls’ The Eyes Afterward The Lady’s Maid’s Bell Kerfol The Triumph of Night Miss Mary Pask Bewitched Mr. Jones Pomegranate Seed A Bottle of Perrier

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139835351
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antony and Cleopatra written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of Antony and Cleopatra, David Bevington has included in his introductory section a thorough consideration of recent critical and stage interpretations, demonstrating how the theatrical design and imagination of this play make it one of Shakespeare's most remarkable tragedies. The edition is attentive throughout to the play as theatre: a detailed, illustrated account of the stage history is followed, in the commentary, by discussion of staging options offered by the text. The commentary is especially full and helpful, untangling many obscure words and phrases, illuminating sexual puns, and alerting the reader to Shakespeare's shaping of his source material in Plutarch's Lives.