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Stanley Cavell and the claim of literature

Rudrum, David, 1974-

Stanley Cavell and the claim of literature [electronic resource] / David Rudrum. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: approaching the unapproachable -- Making sense(s) of Walden -- The avoidance of Shakespeare -- From the sublime to the ordinary: Stanley Cavell's Beckett -- How to do things with Wordsworth -- What did Cavell want of Poe? -- 'Politics as opposed to what?': social contract and marriage contract in A doll's house -- Tragedy's tragedies: between the skeptical and the ethical -- Conclusion: just an ordinary American tragedy.

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Cavell, Stanley, 1926- --Criticism and interpretation.


Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Literature--Philosophy.


Electronic books.

PN49 / .R775 2013

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