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020			_a9781350203198
082			_a822.33 PAF-K
100			_aPaffenroth, Kim
245			_aOn King Lear, the Confessions, and human experience and nature / _cKim Paffenroth
260			_aLondon _bBloomsbury Academic _c2021
300			_a183 p.
365			_aGBP _b24.99.
500			_aAugustine’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.
650			_aKing Lear (Shakespeare, William)
650			_aConfessiones (Augustine, of Hippo, Saint)
650			_aAugustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
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