The Fragmentation of the Proper Name and the Crisis of Degree Deconstructing King Lear |
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Author:
| Amara, Radhouan Ben |
Series title: | Anglistik / Amerikanistik Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-3-8258-6736-2 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2004 |
Publisher: | Lit Verlag
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $32.95 |
Book Description:
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This book is a rich interpretation of a rich text, providing a twenty-first century reading of a timeless masterpiece, and, in so doing, it points to the relationship of death and desire as a playing both with body and language. The book confronts readers with the ineluctable patterns which language and time inscribe within the open/closed Shakespearean space: Degree, division, and diversity as the focal points. Emphasis upon the corporeality of the human body links this study's...
More DescriptionThis book is a rich interpretation of a rich text, providing a twenty-first century reading of a timeless masterpiece, and, in so doing, it points to the relationship of death and desire as a playing both with body and language. The book confronts readers with the ineluctable patterns which language and time inscribe within the open/closed Shakespearean space: Degree, division, and diversity as the focal points. Emphasis upon the corporeality of the human body links this study's textual interpretation with the corpus of the literary canon, itself seen as a body divided by performance and differed by reading. It prevails over the damaging engagement with the deconstructed text and dominates the conflictual tendencies of the reconstructed drama.