King Lear - Shakespeare''s Dark Consolations

Informationen zum Autor Arthur Frank received his doctorate in sociology from Yale in 1975 and spent his career teaching at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. After his retirement in 2013, he taught in Norway; throughout his career he has lectured internationally and held visiting professorships in Australia and England. His work has focused on the experience of serious illness, beginning with his memoir, At the Will of the Body and his most cited work, The Wounded Storyteller. His most recent book was Letting Stories Breathe (Chicago, 2010). He is an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada and recipient of the Career Achievement Award from the Canadian Bioethics Society. Klappentext A book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays' which 'often begin with lives falling apart: an event--shipwreck, exile, doubt, or unexpected love--derails what had seemed secure. Those who participate in the plays, as players, audience members, or readers, are invited to see in those events the vulnerability of their own lives. Zusammenfassung A book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays' which 'often begin with lives falling apart: an event--shipwreck, exile, doubt, or unexpected love--derails what had seemed secure. Those who participate in the plays, as players, audience members, or readers, are invited to see in those events the vulnerability of their own lives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: A Tale of Two Families Vulnerable Reading The Unravelling The Refuge of Second Selves The Lost, the Mad, and the Image of Horror Reconciliations Living With an Unpromised End How King Lear Helps Tragic Sharing Coda: In Place of the Jig

Product details

• Authors: Arthur W. Frank, Arthur W. (Professor Emeritus Frank, Frank Arthur W.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9780192846723
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284672-3
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: My Reading
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Society & culture: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Society and culture: general, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean