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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nichols, Mary P. (honouree.)
Other Authors: Dinan, Matthew D. (Editor), Taylor, Natalie (Editor), Schaeffer, Denise, 1968- (Editor), Kirkland, Paul E., 1972- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]
Series:Politics, literature, & film.
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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.