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On King Lear, The confessions, and human experience and nature
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- Book Synopsis
- 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 triumphal work, challenges us to see their worldviews as more similar than they first seem, and as more relevant to our own fragmented and disillusioned world.
- About The Author
- Kim Paffenroth is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Honors Program at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781350203198
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic, (17 June 2021)
- Number of Pages
- 192
- Weight
- 240 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 134 x 16 mm
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