King Lear and the Naked Truth - Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance

"This is a most impressive book, one that is sure to have an impact, raise questions, and create controversy."--Herbert Lindenberger, Stanford University

About the author

Judy Kronenfeld is a Lecturer in the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside.

Summary

The author critiques the methodology and assumptions of many new historicist, Marxist, and deconstructive approaches to early modern literary works, using King Lear as the focus of her argument, and offering a theoretical framework of her own.

Product details

• Authors: Judy Kronenfeld, Kronenfeld, Judy Kronenfeld
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.1998
• EAN: 9780822320388
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2038-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Weight: 739 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Shakespeare, Drama, Theaterstücke, Drehbücher, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, Literature - Classics / Criticism, DRAMA / Shakespeare