Lear volée: how letters killed the king. Issue 6 (3rd July 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Lear volée: how letters killed the king. Issue 6 (3rd July 2019)
- Main Title:
- Lear volée: how letters killed the king
- Authors:
- Habinek, Lianne
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: This essay examines the complex publishing and critical histories of King Lear to trace the fatal movement of letters across the play. Lear, perhaps more so than any other of Shakespeare's plays, is marked by violent and confusing missives, which both structure the play and undermine that very structure. Letters here expose and incite treachery, carve out crucial paths of knowledge, and ultimately damage people, power, and language itself. Drawing on theories of letter-writing from the early modern period to Poe to Derrida, this essay argues that, despite what appear to be false starts or mis-deliverings, the letter in Lear always does arrive, tragically, at its destination.
- Is Part Of:
- Textual practice. Volume 33:Issue 6(2019)
- Journal:
- Textual practice
- Issue:
- Volume 33:Issue 6(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 33, Issue 6 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 6
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0033-0006-0000
- Page Start:
- 1047
- Page End:
- 1070
- Publication Date:
- 2019-07-03
- Subjects:
- King Lear -- Shakespeare -- Edgar Allen Poe -- letters -- knowledge -- publishing history
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
Criticism -- Periodicals
Criticism, Textual -- Periodicals
Semiotics -- Periodicals
801.95 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtpr20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0950236X.asp ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1441181 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0950-236X
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library DSC - 8813.780460
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- 11011.xml