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The Moral of the Story: Applications of Political Theory


en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 sep 2000
The contributors to this collection of essays are all unified by their concern with the instructive power of great literature. The essays explore the polyvalent moral and political impact of classic world literatures on public ethics through the study of some of its major figures.
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ISBN-13: 9780739101490
ISBN-10: 0739101498
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 149 x 227 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
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Chapter 1 Introduction: Literature and Public Ethics Chapter 2 Henry James' The Princess Casamassima:Revolution and the Preservation of Culture Chapter 3 Love, Law, and Rhetoric: The Teachings of Francesca in Dante's Inferno Chapter 4 Aliens Are Us? Walker Percy's Response to Carl Sagan on Wandering and Wondering Chapter 5 Shakespeare's Henry V and the Act of Ethical Reflection Chapter 6 Rabelais and Pascal: Wise Kings and Anguished Men Chapter 7 Chinua Achebe and the Nature of Social Change Chapter 8 A Place in the World: Delinquency and the Search for Liberty in Cervantes' Rinconete and Cortadillo Chapter 9 The Great-Souled Woman: Jane Austen as Public Moralist Chapter 10 True and False Liberalism: Stolypin and His Enemies in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's August 1914 Chapter 11 The Alchemy of Power and Idealism: Dostoevsky's "Grand Inquisitor" Chapter 12 Democratic Envy in Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen HereI Chapter 13 Natural Right, Conventional Right, and Setting Things Aright: Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer Chapter 14 The Beauty of Middle-Class Virtue: Willa Cather's O Pioneers Chapter 15 Robert Penn Warren's Brother to Dragons: Complicity and the Beginning of Innocence Chapter 16 Fatherhood and Friendship in the Modern Regime: Jean Dutourd's The Springtime of Life Chapter 17 Mark Twain on Democratic Statesmanship: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Chapter 18 Pagan Virtue and Christian Charity: Flannery O'Connor on the Moral Contradictions of Western Culture