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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... Skepticism by which ( following Stanley Cavell ) I mean skepticism about the existence of the external world or of other minds - might seem to designate the most radical stance . Skepticism focuses mainly on the relation between the ...
... skepticism preserves a private autonomy , an autonomy which the early Wittgenstein called solipsism . That au- tonomy may be seen as the refusal of a relation to the world which would be necessarily contingent . But on the other ...
... skeptical relationship to God and to the community of the saved . Although these moments of skepticism are very serious in Herbert , I argue that they are best read as reaction - formations to or psychic defenses against the anguish of ...
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