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Titolo: | Charles Johnson [[electronic resource] ] : the novelist as philosopher / / edited by Marc C. Conner and William R. Nash |
Pubblicazione: | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2007 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
Disciplina: | 813/.54 |
Soggetto topico: | Philosophy in literature |
African Americans in literature | |
Altri autori: | ConnerMarc C. <1965-> NashWilliam R. <1964-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-190) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Charles Johnson and Philosophical Black Fiction; The Genesis of Charles Johnson's Philosophical Fiction; "In-Itself-for-Me": Decomposition and Art in Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale; Bondage and Discipline: The Pedagogy of Discomfort in The Sorcerer's Apprentice; To Utter the Holy: The Metaphysical Romance of Middle Passage; "Go There": The Critical Pragmatism of Charles Johnson; Pragmatic Ethics in Charles Johnson's Fiction; Invisible Threads: Charles Johnson and Feminine Civility; "At the Numinous Heart of Being": Dreamer and Christian Theology |
The Application of an Ideal: Turning the Wheel as Ontological ProgramWorks Cited; Contributors; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Essays by Herman Beavers, Gena Chandler, Marc C. Conner, William Gleason, William R. Nash, Linda Selzer, Gary Storhoff, and John Whalen-Bridge In Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher, leading scholars examine the African American author's literary corpus and major themes, ideas, and influences. The essays explore virtually all of Johnson's writings: each of his novels, his numerous short stories, the range of his nonfiction essays, his many book reviews, and even several unpublished works. These essays engage Johnson's work from a variety of critical perspectives, revealing the philoso |
Titolo autorizzato: | Charles Johnson |
ISBN: | 1-282-94081-3 |
9786612940811 | |
1-60473-507-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910815221003321 |
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