Politics, literature, and film in conversation : essays in honor of Mary P. Nichols /
"Inspired and in honor of the work of noted political theorist Mary P. Nichols, the essays in this volume explore political ideas and implications in a range of works of philosophy, literature, and film from classical antiquity to the present day, creating an interdisciplinary conversation acro...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Conversations about love and friendship
- The good, truth, and friendship in Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics / Stephen Block and Patrick Cain
- Friendship and solitude of greatness: the case of Charles de Gaulle / Daniel Mahoney
- Love and friendship in Henry James's The Bostonians / Lisa Pace Vetter
- Whit Woody Barcelona: Love and friendship in Whit Stillman's Barcelona and Woody Allen's Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona / Ann Ward and Lee Ward
- Part II. Conversations between politics and poetry
- Putting together courage and moderation in Plato and Shakespeare / Kenneth DeLuca
- Shakespeare's princess: education for love and rule in The tempest / Paul E. Kirkland
- Reading Tolkien through the lens of Solzhenitsyn's analysis of ideology: on art. responsibility, and progress / Germaine Paulo Walsh
- Social dance in the films of Whit Stillman / Carl Eric Scott
- Part III. Conversations from tragedy to comedy
- History, tragedy and rebellion in Camus' conversation with Mary Wollstonecraft / Natalie Fuehrer Taylor
- From tragedy to love: Shakespeare's The winter's tale / Sara MacDonald
- The tragic and equitable in Aristotle's Poetics and Ethics / Stephen Sims
- Appendix: List of publications by Mary P. Nichols.