The earliest newspaper reviews of George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four / Robert C. Evans -- Documentary films as contexts for recent novels about the Chinese Cultural Revolution / Robert C. Evans -- A small town called Hibiscus: A Novel (and Film) about the Chinese Cultural Revolution in their historical contexts / Robert C. Evans -- Cixin Liu's The three body problem and the Chinese Cultural Revolution / Robert C. Evans -- "Doing evil" and "doing right in the sight of the Lord": power and corruption in the Bible / Edwin Wong -- "Some by virtue fall": power, corruption, and Senecan Stoicism in Shakespeare's Measure for measure / Matthew M. Thiele -- Virtus and intercessory prayer in Shakespeare's Measure for measure / Brandon Schneeberger -- Shakespeare's Cleopatra and the Biblical "strange woman" of Proverbs / Christopher Baker -- Milton's Satan as demonic pygmalion / Christopher Baker -- Power, corruption, and narrative control in Wuthering Heights / Melissa Anderson -- Does power indeed corrupt? A debate illustrated with character studies from All the king's men / Steven Early -- Power and corruption in/and Arthur Miller's The crucible / Robert C. Evans -- "A very good life": Tactical Pacifism in John Williams's 1965 novel Stoner / Sue Norton
The earliest newspaper reviews of George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four / Robert C. Evans -- Documentary films as contexts for recent novels about the Chinese Cultural Revolution / Robert C. Evans -- A small town called Hibiscus: A Novel (and Film) about the Chinese Cultural Revolution in their historical contexts / Robert C. Evans -- Cixin Liu's The three body problem and the Chinese Cultural Revolution / Robert C. Evans -- "Doing evil" and "doing right in the sight of the Lord": power and corruption in the Bible / Edwin Wong -- "Some by virtue fall": power, corruption, and Senecan Stoicism in Shakespeare's Measure for measure / Matthew M. Thiele -- Virtus and intercessory prayer in Shakespeare's Measure for measure / Brandon Schneeberger -- Shakespeare's Cleopatra and the Biblical "strange woman" of Proverbs / Christopher Baker -- Milton's Satan as demonic pygmalion / Christopher Baker -- Power, corruption, and narrative control in Wuthering Heights / Melissa Anderson -- Does power indeed corrupt? A debate illustrated with character studies from All the king's men / Steven Early -- Power and corruption in/and Arthur Miller's The crucible / Robert C. Evans -- "A very good life": Tactical Pacifism in John Williams's 1965 novel Stoner / Sue Norton
Verlag:
Iberoamericana, Madrid
;
Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main
Enrico Mario Santí gathers here thirty years' worth of essays on Latin American literature and literary theory. The title reflects his enduring interest in the history, literature and culture of Cuba, subject of many of the essays. While most of the...
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Enrico Mario Santí gathers here thirty years' worth of essays on Latin American literature and literary theory. The title reflects his enduring interest in the history, literature and culture of Cuba, subject of many of the essays. While most of the book deals with literature --ranging from aspects of canonical Latin American figures like Borges, Neruda and Paz, to Caribbean exceptionality and the pedagogy of Cultural Studies-- some of it intersects forays into history, politics and art, including music. Indeed, such intersection, polemical perhaps, constitutes the essays' common theme and makes them timely, too, particularly today, when culture rather than literature, or art, or even politics, is meant to carry the day for civic responsibility in critical work --