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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aFlesch, William
_eautore
245 1 0 _aGenerosity and the Limits of Authority :
_bShakespeare, Herbert, Milton /
_cWilliam Flesch.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©1992
300 _a1 online resource (296 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tINTRODUCTION --
_tCHAPTER ONE. "When Griefs Make Thee Tame": Public and Private in Herbert --
_tCHAPTER TWO. Shakespeare's Gifts --
_tCHAPTER THREE. The Majesty of Darkness: Idol and lmage in Milton --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aGenerosity is an ambiguous quality, William Flesch observes; while receiving gifts is pleasant, gift-giving both displays the wealth and strength of the giver and places the receiver under an obligation. In provocative new readings of Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton, Flesch illuminates the personal authority that is bound inextricably with acts of generosity.Drawing on the work of such theorists as Mauss, Blanchot, Bourdieu, Wittgenstein, Bloom, Cavell, and Greenblatt, Flesch maintains that the literary power of Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton is at its most intense when they are exploring the limits of generosity. He considers how in Herbert's Temple divine assurance of the possibility of redemption is put into question and how the poet approaches such a gift with the ambivalence of a beneficiary. In his readings of Shakespeare's Richard II, Henry IV, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, and the sonnets, Flesch examines the perspective of the benefactor—including Shakespeare himself—who confronts the decline of his capacity to give. Turning to Milton's Paradise Lost, Flesch identifies two opposing ways of understanding generosity—Satan's, on the one hand, and Adam and Eve's, on the other - and elaborates the different conceptions of poetry to which these understandings give rise.Scholars of Shakespeare and of Renaissance culture, Miltonists, literary theorists, and others interested in the relationship between philosophy and literature will want to read this insightful and challenging book.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare.
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