The Hunger games and philosophy : a critique of pure treason / edited by George A. Dunn and Nicolas Michaud.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dunn, George A., 1957-

Michaud, Nicolas.

Series:

Blackwell philosophy and popculture series

The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collins, Suzanne--Criticism and interpretation.

Collins, Suzanne.

Collins, Suzanne. Hunger Games.

Philosophy in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 310 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, [2012]

Contents:

"The final word on entertainment": mimetic and monstrous art in the Hunger games / Brian McDonald

"Somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows": how even the shortest song can change the world / Anne Torkelson

"I will be your mockingjay": the power and paradox of metaphor in the Hunger games trilogy / Jill Olthouse

"The odds have not been very dependable of late": morality and luck in the Hunger games trilogy / George A. Dunn

The joy of watching others suffer: Schadenfreude and the Hunger games / Andrew Shaffer

"So here I am in his debt again": Katniss, gifts, and invisible strings / Jennifer Culver

Competition and kindness: the Darwinian world of the Hunger games / Abigail Mann

"No mutt is good"-really? Creating interspecies chimeras / Jason T. Eberl

Why Katniss chooses Peeta: looking at love through a stoic lens / Abigail E. Myers

"She has no idea. The effect she can have.": Katniss and the politics of gender / Jessica Miller

Sometimes the world is hungry for people who care: Katniss and the feminist care ethic / Lindsey Issow Averill

Why does Katniss fail at everything she fakes? Being versus seeming to be in the Hunger games trilogy / Dereck Coatney

Who is Peeta Mellark? The problem of identity in Panem / Nicolas Michaud

"Safe to do what?": morality and the war of all against all in the arena / Joseph J. Foy

Starting fires can get you burned: the just-war tradition and the rebellion against the capitol / Louis Melançon

The tribute's dilemma: the Hunger games and game theory / Andrew Zimmerman Jones

Discipline and the docile body: regulating hungers in the capitol / Christina Van Dyke

"All of this is wrong": why one of Rome's greatest thinkers would despise the capitol / Adam Barkman

Class is in session: power and privilege in Panem / Chad William Timm.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781118065075

1118065077

OCLC:

748330610