Generosity and the Limits of Authority: Shakespeare, Herbert, MiltonCornell University Press, 1992 - 277 עמודים Generosity 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. |
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... Antony's personal identity : “ Sir , some- times when he is not Antony , / He comes too short of that great proper- ty / Which still should go with being Antony " ( 1.i.57-59 ) . I will return to the nature of this evocation of Antony's ...
... Antony again , I will be Cleopatra . ( III.xiii . 184-87 ) Evocations of Antony's generality can take on many tones . Cleo- patra opens the play by teasing that she will " seem the fool I am not . Antony / Will be himself " ( 1.1.42-43 ) ...
... Antony's self - discrepancy through a counterubiquity when he gives his chilling order about Antony's abandoners : " Plant those that have revolted in the vant , / That Antony may seem to spend his fury / Upon himself " ( Iv.vi.8-10 ) ...
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