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Literature and Human Equality

Literature and Human Equality( )
Author: Justman, Stewart
Series title:Rethinking Theory Ser.
ISBN:978-0-8101-6175-7
Publisher:Northwestern University Press
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $59.95
Book Description:

When Achilles dons his armor, gods and readers alike know the outcome, as does the hero himself. But when the commoner becomes the hero, when, as Dr. Johnson remarked in 1750, the heroes of modern fiction are "leveled with the rest of the world"--now that's a different story. In this ambitious work, Stewart Justman ranges across Western literature from the Iliad and the Odyssey through Cervantes and Shakespeare to Dickens, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky to show how such a leveling...
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Pages:176
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / General



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