Beschreibung
“This is a rich interpretation of a rich text. Ben Amara provides a
twenty-first century reading of a timeless masterpiece, and in so doing he
can point to the relationship of death and desire as a playing both with
body and language. He delights in confronting his readers with the
ineluctable patterns which language and time inscribe within the
open/closed Shakespearean space: Degree, division, and diversity as the
focal points. Emphasis upon the corporeality of the human body
concatenates
this study’s textual interpretation with the corpus of the literary canon,
itself seen as a body divided by performance and differed by reading. It
is
also true that The Fragmentation of the Proper Name and the Crisis of
Degree: Deconstructiong King Lear prevails over the damaging engagement
with the deconstructed text and dominates the conflictual tendencies of
the
reconstructed drama.”
Christopher Mulvey, King Alfred’s College, Wincester, England.
Radhouan Ben Amara has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Washington
University in the United States. He is professor of French at the
University of Cagliari in Italy. He also teaches English and English
literature at Martini’s High Institute in Cagliari.
