{"id":1687,"date":"2018-03-19T10:45:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T13:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bokshop.lu.se.webbhotell.ldc.lu.se\/product\/appropriations-of-shakespeares-king-lear-in-three-modern-north-american-novels-2"},"modified":"2015-12-03T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T14:02:10","slug":"appropriations-of-shakespeares-king-lear-in-three-modern-north-american-novels","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.bokshop.lu.se\/en\/produkt\/appropriations-of-shakespeares-king-lear-in-three-modern-north-american-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Appropriations of Shakespeare&#8217;s King Lear in Three Modern North American Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"\" >&lsquo;I am a man<br \/>More sinn&rsquo;d against than sinning&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>For centuries, readers and spectators have felt invited to sympathize with the father in one of William Shakespeare&rsquo;s most famous tragedies, &lt;i&gt;King Lear&lt;\/i&gt;. Towards the end of the 20th century, however, these sympathies shifted towards Lear&rsquo;s daughters in both the critical and the creative afterlife of the play. This book examines the ways in which three modern appropriations of &lt;i&gt;King Lear&lt;\/i&gt; &ndash; &lt;i&gt;A Thousand Acres&lt;\/i&gt; (1991) by Jane Smiley, &lt;i&gt;Ladder of Years&lt;\/i&gt; (1995) by Anne Tyler, and &lt;i&gt;Cat&rsquo;s Eye&lt;\/i&gt; (1988) by Margaret Atwood &ndash; suspend the reader&rsquo;s inclination to assign blame to Goneril and Regan, transferring a measure of responsibility back on to the father. It demonstrates that literary appropriation is able to alter the reader&rsquo;s understanding of a major work of literature and even engender ethical effects in its readers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lsquo;I am a manMore sinn&rsquo;d against than sinning&rsquo; For centuries, readers and spectators have felt invited to sympathize with the father in one of William Shakespeare&rsquo;s most famous tragedies, &lt;i&gt;King Lear&lt;\/i&gt;. Towards the end of the 20th century, however, these sympathies shifted towards Lear&rsquo;s daughters in both the critical and the creative afterlife of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1688,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[97],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1687","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-lund-studies-in-english","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bokshop.lu.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bokshop.lu.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bokshop.lu.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bokshop.lu.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bokshop.lu.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bokshop.lu.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bokshop.lu.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bokshop.lu.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}