Arthur W. Frank (University of Calgary Professor Emeritus)

Gebundenes Buch

King Lear

Shakespeare's Dark Consolations

Beschreibung

A book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays' which 'often begin with lives falling apart: an event--shipwreck, exile, doubt, or unexpected love--derails what had seemed secure. Those who participate in the plays, as players, audience members, or readers, are invited to see in those events the vulnerability of their own lives.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• My Reading
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 139mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9780192846723
• ISBN-10: 0192846728
• Artikelnr.: 63460304