On King Lear the Confessions and Human Experience and Nature 1st Edition by Kim Paffenroth 9781350203228 135020322X

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• ISBN 10: 135020322X
• ISBN 13: 9781350203228
• Author: Kim Paffenroth

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.

Table contents:

1 The Problem of Love
2 The Problem of Language
3 The Problem of Nature
4 The Problem of Reason

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