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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... speech . Cordelia need only mend her speech " a little , " ( another crucial phrase ) to avoid the major catastrophe of ruining her future . So little , obligation or language , will yield so much in return , in the gift econ- omy that ...
... speech when she thanks Kent for his aid : " O thou good Kent , how shall I live and work / To match thy good- ness ? My life will be too short , / And every measure fail me " ( Iv.vii . 1– 3 ) . Her words are not utterly different from ...
... speech to Dolabella she writes , " Cleopatra's imagination is as bountiful as Antony's generosity " ( Shakespeare's Living Art [ Princeton , N.J .: Princeton University Press , 1974 ] , p . 193 ) . That speech itself is significant for ...
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