This collection examines the ways in which religion and literature are capable of renewing what the eminent German philosopher Jürgen Habermas refers to as 'the public sphere'. The essays range from close commentaries on particular texts ( King Lear, The Brothers Karamazov, 'Bartleby the Scrivener') to surveys of the careers of selected writers who have entered the public sphere (Elizabeth Gaskell, W.H. Auden, Raymond Carver, Sherman Alexie), to historical and theoretical examinations of various national and international public spheres.
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Literature and the Renewal of the Public Sphere
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Notes on the Contributors
- 1 Introduction: The Public Muse
- 2 Enacting the Bonds of Love in King Lear
- 3 Dostoevsky and the Prisoner
- 4 Unmasking the Idol of the Market in ‘Bartleby’
- 5 Constructing Female Public Identity: Gaskell on Brontë
- 6 Auden and the Dream of Public Poetry
- 7 Narrative Labour in Raymond Carver
- 8 Sherman Alexie: Walking with Skeletons
- 9 Denis Johnson’s Strange Light
- 10 The Fate of French Poetry
- 11 Woza South Africa! A Postcolonial Public Sphere
- 12 Rushdie, Said and the Global Public Sphere
- 13 Creative Border Crossing in New Public Culture
- 14 Storytelling, Suffering and the Public Sphere
- Index
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