Of Levinas and Shakespeare : "to see another thus" / edited by Moshe Gold and Sandor Goodhart ; with Kent Lehnhof.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gold, Moshe, 1966- editor.

Goodhart, Sandor, editor.

Lehnhof, Kent Russell, 1970- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism and interpretation.

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Early modern.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxii, 334 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2018]

Contents:

Introduction / Moshe Gold and Sandor Goodhart

A meditation / Richard A. Cohen

Lear's "darker purpose" / Sandor Goodhart

Girard and Levinas as readers of King Lear / Ann W. Astell

Theology, phenomenology, and the divine in King Lear / Kent R. Lehnhof

Investment, return, alterity, and The merchant of Venice / Geoffrey Baker

Traces, faces, and ghosts / Hilaire Kallendorf and Claire Katz

From Horror to Solitude to Maternity / Steven Shankman

The frustration of desire and the weakness of power in Venus and Adonis / Sean Lawrence

Ethical ambiguity of the maternal in Shakespeare's first romances / Donald R. Wehrs

Culinary skepticism in As you like it and Montaigne's "Of Experience" / David B. Goldstein

Staging humanity in As you like it and Pirkei Avot / Moshe Gold.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781557538055

1557538050

OCLC:

1000580987