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Freedom and Dialogue in a Polarized World /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schuman, Sharon, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.