{"product_id":"stanley-cavells-american-dream-9780823225965","title":"Stanley Cavells American Dream","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores Cavell's writings. This book states that, after Cavell's celebrated reading of \"King Lear\" turned into a nightmarish meditation on Vietnam, he found a more audible voice. Here, the poetry of ideas and presence of mind that animate Cavell's writing receive readings attuned to the spirit of their composition and its enlivening powers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanley Cavell's American Dream moves from discussions of Cavell's philosophy to readings of Walker Percy, Harold Bloom, Shakespeare, Emerson, and contemporary novelist Jane Smiley, traversing institutional divides with a grace and lucidity which recalls the best writing of such stylistically-gifted critics as Hugh Kenner and Alfred Kazin.  Rewarding\u003cbr\u003e and pleasurable to read.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e---—R.M. Berry, \u003ci\u003eauthor of Frank\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lawrence Rhu's wonderful volume on Stanley Cavell teaches us how to enjoy all Cavell's eloquent, casual, ceremonious, solemn, and high comic ways.\u003cb\u003e---—David Mikics, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Houston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanley Cavell's American Dream is an insightful, original contribution to Shakespeare criticism, film criticism, and to our theoretical understanding of the relationship between the two great arts.\u003cb\u003e---—William Rothman, \u003ci\u003eeditor of Cavell on Film and coauthor of Reading Cavell's The World Viewed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRhu shows how Cavell's philosophy is inseparable from his interest in Shakespeare and Hollywood and so, indirectly, how the interests of an important philosopher are just like anyone else's, and how philosophy for Cavell represents one of the few remaining possibilities of expressing one's simultaneous affection for both Hamlet and North by Northwest.\u003cb\u003e---—Miguel Tamen, \u003ci\u003eauthor of Friends of Interpretable Objects\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA generous invitation for readers to profit from Cavell's Emersonian ways of combining Shakespeare's evergreen worlds with those of Holly wood's Golden Age.\u003cb\u003e---—Stephen Mulhall, \u003ci\u003eauthor of Stanley Cavell: Philosophy's Recounting of the Ordinary  and editor of The Cavell Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book brightly illuminates the work of Shakespeare, Emerson and Hollywood melodrama and re-marriage comedy as well as the work of the thinker who has given us such extraordinary pathways into them.\u003cb\u003e---—Sarah Beckwith, \u003ci\u003eSignifying God\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRhu's stated aim is to read Cavell's studies of Shakespeare and Hollywood and transcendentalism together, rather than separating them into disciplinary distinctness, as has been the standard. . . Recommended. * —Choice *\u003cbr\u003eA work for every Shakespearean—experts and amateurs, teachers and their students, whom this book will delight and instruct.  Its eloquence and accessiblity make it ideal for graduate and undergraduate classes.\u003cb\u003e---—John Tobin, \u003ci\u003ecoeditor of The Riverside Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"ME - Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577677975895,"sku":"9780823225965","price":55.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823225965.jpg?v=1746096131","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stanley-cavells-american-dream-9780823225965","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}