Description: Succeeding King Lear : Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics, Paperback by Sun, Emily, ISBN 0823232816, ISBN-13 9780823232819, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book investigates Shakespeare's King Lear and its originative power in modern literature with specific attention to the early work of English Romantic poet William Wordsworth and to the American writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans's 1941 collaboration, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. It examines how these later readers return to the play to interrogate emphatically the question of the relations between literature and politics in modernity and to initiate in this way their own creative trajectories. King Lear opens up a literary genealogy or history of successors, at the heart and origin of which, the author claims, is a crisis of sovereignty. The tragedy famously begins with the title character's decision to give up his throne and divide the kingdom prior to his demise. In bringing to light the assumptions behind this logic, and in dramatizing its disastrous consequences, the play performs an implicit analysis and critique of sovereignty as the guiding principle of political life and gestures, beyond sovereignty, towards the possibility of a new aesthetic and political future. The question of the relations between literature and politics does not only open up immanently or internally within King Lear, this book argues, but is also that which occasions a literary history of readers who return to the play as to an originary locus for dealing with a problem. Among such successors are Wordsworth in the 1790s after the French Revolution and Agee and Evans during the Depression in the 1930s, whose engagements with Lear, this book argues, were crucial to their development of new artistic means towards creating a democratic literature. In bringing British Romanticism and American modernism into contact with their literary political origins in Shakespeare, this book offers an original way of thinking literary history and a new approach to the question of the relations between literature and politics in modernity. In its interdisciplinary and cross-period scope, it will appeal to students and scholars of Shakespeare, Romanticism, modernism, literary theory, as well as literature and photography.
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Book Title: Succeeding King Lear : Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication Year: 2012
Topic: Individual Photographers / General, Shakespeare, Poetry, American / General, Subjects & Themes / Politics, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Height: 0.5 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Drama, Photography
Item Weight: 9.9 Oz
Author: Emily Sun
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 7.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
