Goodness and the literary imagination : Harvard Divinity School's 95th Ingersoll Lecture : with essays on Morrison's moral and religious vision /

"What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters' greatest voices, pondered these perplexing questions in her celebrated Ingersoll Lecture, delivered at Harvard University in 2012 and published now for the first time in book f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morrison, Toni (Autor)
Otros Autores: Carrasco, Davíd (Editor ), Paulsell, Stephanie, 1962- (Editor ), Willard, Mara (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Colección:Ingersoll lecture ; 2012.
Temas:
Morrison, Toni > Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni > History and criticism.
Morrison, Toni > Religion.
Morrison, Toni > Ethics.
Morrison, Toni
Good and evil in literature.
Religion
Good and evil in literature
Ethics
Good and evil
essays.
Essays
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Essays.
Essais.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Toni Morrison's religion
  • "Goodness : Altruism and the literary imagination," Ingersoll Lecture 2012 / Toni Morrison
  • I. Significant landscapes and sacred places. Haunted by slavery / Walter Johnson ; Ọmọ Òpìtańdìran, an Africanist griot : Toni Morrison and African epistemology, myths, and literary culture / Jacob K. Olupona ; Structures of stone and rings of light : spirited landscapes in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Tiya Miles
  • II. Putting goodness onstage. Evocations of intimacies : comments on Toni Morrison's Home / Charles H. Long ; Morrison's pietàs as participatory loss and love / Mara Willard ; The ghost of Love and goodness / Davíd Carrasco ; Demons and dominion : possession and dispossession in Toni Morrison's A mercy / Matthew Potts
  • III. Giving goodness a voice. Ministry in Paradise / Stephanie Paulsell ; Luminous darkness : Africanist presence and the American soul / Jonathan L. Walton ; Going backstage : Soaphead Church and the (religious) problem of goodness in The bluest eye / Biko Mandela Gray ; Unsung no more : Pilate's mercy! Eulogy in Song of Solomon / Gerald "Jay" Williams ; Quiet, as it's kept and lovingly disrupted by Baby Suggs, Holy : on the volume of goodness in Beloved / Josslyn Luckett
  • Writing goodness and mercy : a 2017 interview with Toni Morrison.

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