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  1. Generosity and the Limits of Authority
    Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton
    Published: [2018]; © 1992
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Generosity is an ambiguous quality, William Flesch observes; while receiving gifts is pleasant, gift-giving both displays the wealth and strength of the giver and places the receiver under an obligation. In provocative new readings of Shakespeare,... more

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Generosity is an ambiguous quality, William Flesch observes; while receiving gifts is pleasant, gift-giving both displays the wealth and strength of the giver and places the receiver under an obligation. In provocative new readings of Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton, Flesch illuminates the personal authority that is bound inextricably with acts of generosity.Drawing on the work of such theorists as Mauss, Blanchot, Bourdieu, Wittgenstein, Bloom, Cavell, and Greenblatt, Flesch maintains that the literary power of Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton is at its most intense when they are exploring the limits of generosity. He considers how in Herbert's Temple divine assurance of the possibility of redemption is put into question and how the poet approaches such a gift with the ambivalence of a beneficiary. In his readings of Shakespeare's Richard II, Henry IV, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, and the sonnets, Flesch examines the perspective of the benefactor-including Shakespeare himself-who confronts the decline of his capacity to give. Turning to Milton's Paradise Lost, Flesch identifies two opposing ways of understanding generosity-Satan's, on the one hand, and Adam and Eve's, on the other - and elaborates the different conceptions of poetry to which these understandings give rise.Scholars of Shakespeare and of Renaissance culture, Miltonists, literary theorists, and others interested in the relationship between philosophy and literature will want to read this insightful and challenging book

     

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781501732867
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    Subjects: Authority in literature; English literature; Generosity in literature; geben; Wohltätigkeit; nehmen
    Other subjects: Herbert, George (1593-1633); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Milton, John (1608-1674)
    Scope: 1 online resource
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  2. La carità a Vicenza
    i luoghi e le immagini ; [Vicenza, Basilica Palladiana, 20 aprile - 14 luglio 2002]
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Marsilio, Venezia

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Language: Italian
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 8831780131
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: Geschichte; Wohltätigkeit; Nächstenliebe <Motiv>; Religion; Kunst
    Scope: 286 S., zahlr. Ill.
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    Vicenza (Veneto). - Contains bibliography

  3. La Rivoluzione in una parola
    "Bienfaisance" 1789 - 1800
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Lang, Bern [u.a.]

    Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Fakultät für Philologie, Romanisches Seminar, Bibliothek
    Gen Sa 875
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
    W 2011/2201
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
    nc/a6237
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    Universitätsbibliothek Duisburg-Essen
    EXX2304
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster
    3K 32868
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    Language: Italian
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9783034304733
    DDC Categories: 440
    Series: Franco-Italica ; 7
    Subjects: Literatur; Wohltätigkeit <Motiv>; Französisch
    Scope: 159 S., 225 mm x 155 mm
  4. Love's quarrels
    reading charity in early modern England
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst ; Boston

    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster
    3K 85834
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781625343802; 9781625343819
    Series: Massachusetts studies in early modern culture
    Subjects: English literature; Charity in literature; Nächstenliebe <Motiv>; Wohltätigkeit <Motiv>; Englisch; Literatur
    Scope: x, 296 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
  5. Medieval healthcare and the rise of charitable institutions
    the history of the municipal hospital
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

    Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld
    CI250 Z66
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    45A4518
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    Institut für Vergleichende Städtegeschichte an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität, Bibliothek
    Af 2024
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster
    3L 23462
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9783030020552; 303002055X
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    DDC Categories: 800
    Series: The new Middle Ages
    Subjects: Wohltätigkeit; Stadt; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Hospital
    Other subjects: Charitable Institution; High Middle Ages; Hospital; Medieval; Saint John
    Scope: vi, 155 Seiten, 21 cm x 14.8 cm
  6. Generosity and the limits of authority
    Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
    12.570.72
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0801426421
    RVK Categories: HI 3331
    Subjects: Wohltätigkeit; nehmen; geben
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Herbert, George (1593-1633); Pembroke, William Herbert of (1580-1630); Milton, John (1608-1674)
    Scope: XII, 277 S.
  7. Superintending the poor
    charitable ladies and paternal landlords in British fiction 1770 - 1860
    Author: Tobin, Beth
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  Yale Univ. Press, New Haven [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
    12.614.38
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    Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Standort Holländischer Platz
    25 Eng PA 0021
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    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Philosophicum, Standort Anglistik/ Amerikanistik
    L/V/2 F 13 I
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0300055595
    RVK Categories: HL 1101
    Subjects: Englisch; Literatur; Wohltätigkeit <Motiv>; Armut <Motiv>
    Scope: IX, 195 S.
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. 179 - 189

  8. Charity and power in early modern Italy
    benefactors and their motives in Turin, 1541 - 1789
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

    Universität Mainz, Fachbereich 04, Medizin, Universitätsmedizin, Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin
    SoWi 54 Ita 1995
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0521483336
    RVK Categories: NR 8768
    Series: Cambridge history of medicine
    Subjects: Wohltätigkeit; Macht; Motivation
    Scope: XV, 280 S., Ill.
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    Literaturverz. S. [258] - 270

  9. Senecas Schrift De beneficiis und der Wandel im römischen Benefizienwesen
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen

    In der Aristokratie der römischen Republik wurden existenziell wichtige Hilfeleistungen unter dem Namen »Wohltaten« (beneficia) in breit angelegten Netzen persönlicher Bindungen erwiesen. Die Etablierung der kaiserlichen Herrschaft bewirkte hier... more

    Evangelische Hochschule Darmstadt, Bibliothek
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    In der Aristokratie der römischen Republik wurden existenziell wichtige Hilfeleistungen unter dem Namen »Wohltaten« (beneficia) in breit angelegten Netzen persönlicher Bindungen erwiesen. Die Etablierung der kaiserlichen Herrschaft bewirkte hier fundamentale Änderungen.Dieses Buch untersucht, wie sich die Vermittlungswege von beneficia im Umbruch zur Kaiserzeit änderten und welche Folgen das für persönliche Bindungen, für die Symbolik von Wohltaten und nicht zuletzt für das Verhalten der Akteure hatte.Senecas Schrift De beneficiis wird interpretiert als zeitgenössische Reflexion dieses realhis...

     

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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783847102588; 9783847002581 (Sekundärausgabe)
    RVK Categories: FX 210205
    DDC Categories: 870; 100; 930
    Series: Freunde – Gönner – Getreue Studien zur Semantik und Praxis von Freundschaft und Patronage ; v.10
    Subjects: Wohltätigkeit
    Other subjects: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Philosophus (65): De beneficiis
    Scope: 484 p.
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  10. Dynamics of Charity and Reciprocity in the Book of Sirach
    Published: [2024]; © 2024
    Publisher:  Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen

    Stephen Long untersucht die theologische Interpretation der Beziehung zwischen Wohltätigkeit und Gegenseitigkeit in der jüdischen Weisheitslehre Josua Ben Siras aus dem 2. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Der Gabentausch mit Gott ermöglicht ihr zufolge... more

    Martinus-Bibliothek, Wissenschaftliche Diözesanbibliothek
    GK/2792
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    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Katholische Theologie und Evangelische Theologie
    Da 21-147
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    Stephen Long untersucht die theologische Interpretation der Beziehung zwischen Wohltätigkeit und Gegenseitigkeit in der jüdischen Weisheitslehre Josua Ben Siras aus dem 2. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Der Gabentausch mit Gott ermöglicht ihr zufolge großzügiges Handeln gegenüber den Mitmenschen

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783161623844; 3161623843
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    9783161623844
    DDC Categories: 220
    Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe ; 147
    Subjects: Wohltätigkeit <Motiv>; Vergeltung <Motiv>; Theologie
    Scope: XIII, 339 Seiten, 23.2 cm x 15.5 cm, 530 g
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    Dissertation, University of Notre Dame, 2018

  11. Dynamics of Charity and Reciprocity in the Book of Sirach
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen, Bibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783161627804
    DDC Categories: 220; 230
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2. Reihe
    Subjects: Wohltätigkeit <Motiv>; Vergeltung <Motiv>; Theologie
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (356 pages)
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  12. How Dalia put a big yellow comforter inside a tiny blue box
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Tricycle Press, Berkeley, Calif.

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
    Sq 5/2470
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    Contributor: Heller, Linda; Dressen McQueen, Stacey
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1582463786; 9781582463780; 1582463824; 9781582463827; 1582464022; 9781582464022
    RVK Categories: BD 1250
    Subjects: Judentum; Wohltätigkeit; Nächstenliebe
    Scope: [30] S., zahlr. Ill., 27x22x1 cm
  13. Galgal hu ṿe-hu ʿover ʿal ha-khol
    ʿoni u-tsedaḳah ba-ʿene ḥakhme Erets Yiśraʾel = The wheel that overtakes everyone : poverty and charity in the eyes of sages in the land of Israel
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Hotsaʾat ha-Ḳibuts ha-meʾuḥad, Tel Aviv

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
    90.986.85
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    Language: Hebrew
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    Series: Sifriyat "Helal Ben-Ḥayim"
    Subjects: Judentum; Rabbinische Literatur; Armut; Wohltätigkeit; Armut <Motiv>; Wohltätigkeit <Motiv>
    Scope: 377 Seiten
  14. Vernünftige Menschenliebe
    Wohltat und Almosen in Drama und Roman der deutschen Aufklärung
    Author: John, Regina
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Lang, Frankfurt am Main u.a.

    Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
    ISBN: 3631444265
    RVK Categories: GI 1673 ; GI 1683 ; GI 1686
    Series: [Europäische Hochschulschriften / 01] ; 1289
    Subjects: Charité dans la littérature; Littérature allemande - 18e siècle - Histoire et critique; Mouvement des Lumières - Allemagne; Charity in literature; Enlightenment; German literature; Wohltätigkeit; Literatur; Drama; Wohltätigkeit <Motiv>; Deutsch; Aufklärung; Roman
    Scope: 308 S.
    Notes:

    Vollst. zugl.: München, Univ., Diss., 1991

  15. Literature and humanitarian reform in the Civil War era
  16. Pod jednym dachem
    Niemcy oraz ich polscy i zydowscy sasiedzi w Lodzi w XIX i XX wieku
    Contributor: Radziszewska, Krystyna (Herausgeber*in); Wozniak, Krzysztof (Herausgeber*in)
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Wydawn. Literatura, Lódz

    Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz, Joseph-Wulf-Mediothek
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    Contributor: Radziszewska, Krystyna (Herausgeber*in); Wozniak, Krzysztof (Herausgeber*in)
    Language: Polish; German
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 8388484087
    Edition: Wyd. I.
    Subjects: Schule; Verein; Theater; Wohltätigkeit; Literatur
    Scope: 222 s.
  17. Charity and power in early modern Italy
    benefactors and their motives in Turin, 1541 - 1789
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0521460913; 0521483336
    Other identifier:
    9780521483339
    9780521460910
    RVK Categories: NR 8768
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Cambridge history of medicine
    Subjects: Charities; Public welfare; Charities, Medical; Geschichte 1541-1789; Turin; Fürsorge; Wohltätigkeit
    Scope: XV, 280 S, Ill., graph. Darst., Kt, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  18. Vernünftige Menschenliebe
    Wohltat und Almosen in Drama und Roman der deutschen Aufklärung
    Author: John, Regina
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Lang, Frankfurt am Main

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 3631444265
    RVK Categories: GI 1686 ; GI 1673 ; GI 1683
    Series: Array ; 1289
    Subjects: Deutsch; Drama; Wohltätigkeit <Motiv>; Deutsch; Roman; Wohltätigkeit <Motiv>; Aufklärung; Drama; Wohltätigkeit <Motiv>; Deutsch; Aufklärung; Roman; Wohltätigkeit; Deutsch
    Other subjects: Array; Array; Charity in literature
    Scope: 308 S., 21 cm
    Notes:

    Zugl.: München, Univ., Diss., 1990-1991

  19. Caridad y compasión en biografías islámicas
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid

    Hessisches BibliotheksInformationsSystem hebis
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    Contributor: Carballeira Debasa, Ana María
    Language: Spanish; English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9788400093105; 9788400093112
    Series: Estudios onomástico-biográficos de Al-Andalus ; 16
    Subjects: Arabisch; Biografie; Adab; Wohltätigkeit <Motiv>; Mitgefühl
    Scope: 350 S., 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references

  20. Interpretazione, comunicazione, verità
    saggio sul principio di carità nella filosofia contemporanea
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  La Città del Sole, Napoli

    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: Italian
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 8882920100
    RVK Categories: CI 1110
    Series: Il pensiero e la storia ; 57
    Subjects: Psychologie; Benevolence; Charity; Communication; Hermeneutics; Interpretation (Philosophy); Wohltätigkeit; Hermeneutik; Verstehen
    Scope: 298 S.
  21. "Spartiēteōn tō koinō"
    die Bedeutung der sogenannten agathoergoi und das Prinzip der Wohltat im Dienste des Staates für Sparta
    Published: 2017

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation; Data medium; Microfilm
    Subjects: Polis; Textgeschichte; Selbstverständnis; Wohltätigkeit
    Other subjects: Herodotus (ca. 485 v. Chr.-424 v. Chr.): Historiae
    Scope: 4 Mikrofiches (309 Seiten)
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    Haupttitel und Teil des Titelzusatzes in griechischer Schrift

    Titel auf der Kopfleiste des Masterfiches: "Für die Gemeinschaft der Spartiaten"

    Dissertation, Freie Universität Berlin, 2018

  22. Zur Bedeutung von Wohltaten für das Gedeihen von Gemeinschaft
    Cicero, Seneca und Laktanz über "beneficia"
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783515118583
    RVK Categories: CD 3710 ; FB 4042 ; FX 210205
    DDC Categories: 480
    Series: Palingenesia ; Band 109
    Subjects: Wohltätigkeit <Motiv>; Ethik; Gemeinschaft <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Philosophus (-65); Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (250-317); Cicero, Marcus Tullius (v106-v43); Altphilologie; beneficium; Gemeinschaft; Stoa; Gabetheorie; Kommunikationstheorie; Wohltätigkeit
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (277 Seiten)
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    Dissertation, TU Dresden, 2015

  23. Volksmusikanten engagieren sich für einen guten Zweck
    Published: 2018

    Benediktinerabtei Metten, Bibliothek
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    Contributor: Kühnl, Carmen E.; Diewald, Franz; Fischer, Willi; Herold, Karlheinz
    Language: German
    Media type: Article (journal)
    Parent title: Zwiefach; Köln, 2018; 61, 3 (2018), Seite 53-55
    Subjects: Wohltätigkeit <Motiv>; Volksmusik
    Scope: Illustrationen
  24. Medieval healthcare and the rise of charitable institutions
    the history of the municipal hospital
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham

    Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
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    Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783030020569
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: NW 9000
    Series: The New Middle Ages
    Subjects: Medieval Literature; History of Medieval Europe; History of Medicine; Literature, Medieval; Europe-History-476-1492; Medicine; Wohltätigkeit; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Stadt; Hospital
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 155 Seiten)
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    Rezensiert in: sehepunkte 20 (2020), Nr. 1 [15.01.2020], URL: www.sehepunkte.de/2020/01/32792.html (Klaus Bergdolt) [20.03.2020]

  25. Generosity and the Limits of Authority
    Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton
    Published: [2018]; © 1992
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Generosity is an ambiguous quality, William Flesch observes; while receiving gifts is pleasant, gift-giving both displays the wealth and strength of the giver and places the receiver under an obligation. In provocative new readings of Shakespeare,... more

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    Generosity is an ambiguous quality, William Flesch observes; while receiving gifts is pleasant, gift-giving both displays the wealth and strength of the giver and places the receiver under an obligation. In provocative new readings of Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton, Flesch illuminates the personal authority that is bound inextricably with acts of generosity.Drawing on the work of such theorists as Mauss, Blanchot, Bourdieu, Wittgenstein, Bloom, Cavell, and Greenblatt, Flesch maintains that the literary power of Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton is at its most intense when they are exploring the limits of generosity. He considers how in Herbert's Temple divine assurance of the possibility of redemption is put into question and how the poet approaches such a gift with the ambivalence of a beneficiary. In his readings of Shakespeare's Richard II, Henry IV, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, and the sonnets, Flesch examines the perspective of the benefactor-including Shakespeare himself-who confronts the decline of his capacity to give. Turning to Milton's Paradise Lost, Flesch identifies two opposing ways of understanding generosity-Satan's, on the one hand, and Adam and Eve's, on the other - and elaborates the different conceptions of poetry to which these understandings give rise.Scholars of Shakespeare and of Renaissance culture, Miltonists, literary theorists, and others interested in the relationship between philosophy and literature will want to read this insightful and challenging book

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501732867
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    Subjects: Authority in literature; English literature; Generosity in literature; geben; Wohltätigkeit; nehmen
    Other subjects: Herbert, George (1593-1633); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Milton, John (1608-1674)
    Scope: 1 online resource
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