Castara, 1634-40

Castara, 1634-40
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Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : GENT:900000141071
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Synopsis Castara, 1634-40 by : William Habington

Castara

Castara
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Total Pages : 152
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ISBN-10 : BSB:BSB10748551
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Synopsis Castara by : William Habington

Generosity and the Limits of Authority

Generosity and the Limits of Authority
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 9781501732874
ISBN-13 : 1501732870
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Generosity and the Limits of Authority by : William Flesch

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.

Book Auction Records

Book Auction Records
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Total Pages : 732
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ISBN-10 : PRNC:32101067018133
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Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Book Auction Records by : Frank Karslake

A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.

Haydn ́s Universal Index of Biography

Haydn ́s Universal Index of Biography
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages : 678
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ISBN-10 : 9783846047705
ISBN-13 : 3846047708
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Haydn ́s Universal Index of Biography by : J. Bertrand Payne

Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.

Haydn ́s Dictionary of Dates

Haydn ́s Dictionary of Dates
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages : 678
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ISBN-10 : 9783846047941
ISBN-13 : 3846047945
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Haydn ́s Dictionary of Dates by : Benjamin Vincent

Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.