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Brave new words : how literature will save the planet /
Brave New Words challenges present and future literary scholars and teachers to look beyond mere literary critique toward the concrete issue of social change and how to achieve it. Calling for a profound realignment of thought and spirit in the service of positive social change, Ammons argues for th...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
2010.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Brave New Words challenges present and future literary scholars and teachers to look beyond mere literary critique toward the concrete issue of social change and how to achieve it. Calling for a profound realignment of thought and spirit in the service of positive social change, Ammons argues for the continued importance of multiculturalism in the twenty-first century despite attacks on the concept from both right and left. Concentrating on activist U.S. writers - from ecocritics to feminists to those dedicated to exposing race and class biases, from Jim Wallis and Cornel West to Winona. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xiv, 197 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781587299223 1587299224 |