King Lear: Shakespeare's Dark Consolations by Frank, Arthur W.

King Lear: Shakespeare's Dark Consolations (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780192846723)

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King Lear: Shakespeare's Dark Consolations by Frank, Arthur W.

King Lear: Shakespeare's Dark Consolations

$24.99
King Lear: Shakespeare's Dark Consolations by Frank, Arthur W.

King Lear: Shakespeare's Dark Consolations

$24.99
Format: Hardcover
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A book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays'.

As part of the My Reading series, King Lear is a personal meditation on a great literary work. Arthur Frank brings a career of studying illness experience and suffering to consider how King Lear can aid people whose lives need help. Reading King Lear leads Frank to both an encounter with his own old age and a source of consolation-companionship--in his future. This book does not try to minimize vulnerabilities, but it shows what is fully human, and thus shared, in suffering. The book introduces readers to King Lear, and it invites those who know the play to a new consideration for its ability to affect people's lives.

Author: Arthur W. Frank
ISBN-10: 0192846728
ISBN-13: 9780192846723
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 11/25/2022
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.83h x 5.69w x 0.58d
By Arthur W. Frank
By Arthur W. Frank
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Arthur W. Frank, Professor Emeritus, University of Calgary

Arthur Frank received his doctorate in sociology from Yale in 1975 and spent his career teaching at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. After his retirement in 2013, he taught in Norway; throughout his career he has lectured internationally and held visiting professorships in Australia and England. His work has focused on the experience of serious illness, beginning with his memoir, At the Will of the Body and his most cited work, The Wounded Storyteller. His most recent book was Letting Stories Breathe (Chicago, 2010). He is an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada and recipient of the Career Achievement Award from the Canadian Bioethics Society.

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