On King Lear, The Confessions, and Human Experience and Nature
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? To answer these questions, Kim Paffenroth analyses the similarities and differences between the thinking of these two figures on the themes of love, language, nature and reason. Pairing and connecting the insights of Shakespeare's most nihilist tragedy with those of Augustine's most personal and sometimes self-condemnatory, sometimes…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-350-20322-8
- EAN: 9781350203228
- Produktnummer: 36011661
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'260 KB
Über den Autor
Kim Paffenroth is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Honors Program at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York.
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