Jens Martin Gurr

Understanding Public Debates

What Literary Studies Can Do

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Produktbeschreibung

Understanding Public Debates presents case studies including Milton's Paradise Lost and P.B. Shelley's 1820 Reform essay to explore how texts stage these debates by means of multiple perspectives, narrative situations, or ambiguities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9781032765365
• ISBN-10: 1032765364
• Artikelnr.: 70150156

Autorenporträt

Jens Martin Gurr has been Full Professor of British and Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, since 2007. He is the author or coauthor of five monographs, including Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City (2021) and (with Julia Hoydis and Roman Bartosch) Climate Change Literacy (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The History of Ideas and the Long Shadow of Plato: Milton, Shelley and
Problems of Liberty and Liberalism
2. Complicating the 'Culture Wars': Re-reading The Human Stain
3. America the Beautiful? Neil Young's Explorations of Racism, Genocide and
the Foundations of 'America'
4. Edward Young's Abysmal 'Sea Odes': Mercantilism, Free Trade and
Globalization
5. Cli-fi Novels as Models of and for Climate Debates
6. Understanding Conflicts through Conflict Narratives: Narrative Path
Dependencies and the Chances for Compromise
By Way of Conclusion: Ten Theses