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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 25
IS  - 1
T2  - Anthropoetics
ID  - bbbm184
T1  - "Shakespeare's Linguistic Turn in King Lear"
AU  - McKenna, Andrew J
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2026
LA  - English
AB  - Draws from Richard van Oort's analysis of "Christian anthropology" of Shakespeare's ethics and aesthetics in five Shakespearean tragedies (excluding King Lear) to offer new reading of King Lear which weaves together insights from Harold Bloom, Rene Girard, and Eric Gans. Of Lear's final speech, argues that "Blessing and forgiveness, and prayer and song, are the deritualized speech acts of Lear’s jubilation, a vision of this-worldly transcendence as immunity to the contagion of rivalries governing society."
ER  -