Dialogues with/and great books : the dynamics of canon formation /
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Brighton [U.K.] ; Portland, Or. :
Sussex Academic Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Real life dialogues
- Literary dialogues
- The battle of the (great) books
- The dialogic approach to great books
- The sacrifice scene : Kierkegaard and Levin
- Samson : Jabotinsky and DeMille
- Jesus Christ : Monty Python and Saramago
- Horace in Pushkin, Owen, and Diderot
- Juvenal's Satire X : Johnson and Swift
- Pygmalion : Ovid, Shaw & My fair lady via Molière
- More's Utopia : Bacon, Swift, and Voltaire
- Robinson Crusoe, the variety principle revisited.