On King Lear, the confessions, and human experience and nature / Kim Paffenroth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paffenroth, Kim, 1966- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Reading Augustine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear.

Shakespeare, William.

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Confessiones.

Augustine.

Confessiones (Augustine, of Hippo, Saint).

King Lear (Shakespeare, William).

Physical Description:

viii, 183 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

©2021

Summary:

"Augustine's Confessions and Shakespeare's King Lear are two of the most influential and enduring works of the Western canon or world literature. But what does Stratford-upon-Avon have to do with Hippo, or the ascetical heretic-fighting polemicist, with the author of some of the world's most beautiful love poetry? Pairing and connecting the insights of Shakespeare's most nihilist tragedy, with those of Augustine's most personal and sometimes self-condemnatory, sometimes triumphal work, challenges us to see worldviews more similar than they seemed at first, and more relevant to our own fragmented and disillusioned world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Problem Of Love

2. The Problem Of Language

3. The Problem Of Nature

4. The Problem Of Reason.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Paffenroth, Kim, 1966- On King Lear, The confessions, and human experience and nature

ISBN:

9781350203198

135020319X

9781350203204

1350203203

OCLC:

1227789314