Freedom and dialogue in a Polarized World / Sharon Schuman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schuman, Sharon, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberty in literature.

Decision making in literature.

Autonomy in literature.

Physical Description:

xv, 241p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : University of Delaware Press, 2014.

Summary:

This book invites us to question our infatuation with freedom as autonomy and enlightenment and introduces a new concept: dialogic freedom. It presents riveting moments of decision in literature from Homer's Iliad to Morrison's Beloved, urging us to read for and with dialogic freedom, and inspiring us to feel freer by abandoning our polarized enclaves in order to see better from the perspectives of others.

Contents:

Introducing dialogic freedom

A father begs for his son's corpse in The Iliad

Passion and freedom in Dante's Inferno

Deaf to Shylock in The Merchant of Venice

The virtuosity of Satan in Paradise Lost

Shaping the master's vision in "benito cereno"

The grand inquisitor's silent Christ

Goading a reader of "in the penal colony"

Freedom under impossible conditions in Beloved

Freedom under construction in a polarized world.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781611494631 : (ebk : EbookCentral)

OCLC:

869092645