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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789150703321

Autore

Schuman Sharon <1946->

Titolo

Freedom and dialogue in a Polarized World / / Sharon Schuman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2014

Lanham, Maryland : , : University of Delaware Press, , 2014

ISBN

9781611494631 : (ebk : EbookCentral)

Descrizione fisica

xv, 241p

Disciplina

809/.933581

Soggetti

Liberty in literature

Decision making in literature

Autonomy in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.