Avoidance as love : Evading Cavell on Dover Cliff
Journal article
Luke, Nicholas. (2020). Avoidance as love : Evading Cavell on Dover Cliff. Modern Philology: Critical and Historical studies in postclassical literature. 117(4), pp. 445-469. https://doi.org/10.1086/708346
Authors | Luke, Nicholas |
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Abstract | [Extract] This essay raises a ghostly counterpoint to Stanley Cavell’s influential reading of King Lear (ca. 1605) in the form of the discontinuous, fragmentary, at times almost inhuman character of Edgar.1 Cavell’s achievement in “The Avoidance of Love” is to show how cruelty in the play is bound up with a shame-filled desire “to avoid being recognized.”2 What Lear avoids is not just the “other” in all its inherent uncertainty—its eyes, its desire, its love—but also himself, or at least the vulnerable, open self that is capable of love. Cavell sees Edgar as an inveterate avoider. |
Year | 2020 |
Journal | Modern Philology: Critical and Historical studies in postclassical literature |
Journal citation | 117 (4), pp. 445-469 |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
ISSN | 0026-8232 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1086/708346 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85084150164 |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 445-469 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 2020 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 28 Jun 2021 |
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