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The Hunger Games and philosophy : a critique of pure treason /
"A philosophical exploration of Suzanne Collins's New York Times bestselling series, just in time for the release of The Hunger Games movie. Katniss Everdeen is 'the girl who was on fire, ' but she is also the girl who made us think, dream, question authority, and rebel. The post...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Blackwell philosophy and popculture series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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.