| Description |
x, 397 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Part I: The artist in the continental tradition. Rousseau and Brecht: Political virtue and the tragic imagination / Benjamin R. Barber ; Baudelaire: Modernism in the streets / Marshall Berman ; Dostoevsky and Unamuno: The anti-modern personality / Michael A. Weinstein ; Camus: The absurdity of politics / Lyman Tower Sargent ; Trotsky and Malraux: The political imagination / Marc Scheinman ; Hermann Hesse: Passion and politics / Samuel H. Hines, Jr. -- Part II: The artist in the English-speaking world. Shakespeare: Poetic understanding and comic action / Richard H. Cox ; Shakespeare: Elizabethan statecraft and Machiavellianism / Tracy B. Strong ; Joyce: Political development and the aesthetic of Dubliners / Paul Delany ; Fenimore Cooper: Natty Bumppo and the Godfather / Wilson Carey McWilliams ; Melville: Billy Budd and the context of political rule / James R. Hurtgen ; Mark Twain: Technology, social change, and political power / Molly Lyndon Shanley and Peter G. Stillman ; Faulkner, Naipaul and Zola: Violence and the novel / Peter C. Sederberg ; Frank Capra: Politics and film / Morris Dicksteind ; Orwell: Ethics and politics in the pre-Nineteen eighty-four writings / David Lowenthal ; Kesey and Vonnegut: The critique of liberal democracry in contemporary literature / Michael J. Gargas McGrath |
| Analysis |
Politics in literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Politics in literature.
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Politics, Practical -- In literature.
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| Author |
Barber, Benjamin R., 1939-2017.
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McGrath, Michael J. Gargas, 1942-
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| LC no. |
80080317 |
| ISBN |
0878553800 |
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