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 across genres.

List of contents

IntroductionMatthew Dinan and Denise SchaefferPart I - Conversations about Love and FriendshipChapter 1 The Good, Truth, and Friendship in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Stephen Block and Patrick Cain
Chapter2: Friendship and the Solitude of Greatness: The Case of Charles de Gaulle
Daniel Mahoney
Chapter 3: Love and Friendship in Henry James's The Bostonians
Lisa Pace Vetter
Chapter 4: 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 PoetryChapter 5: Putting Together Courage and Moderation in Plato and ShakespeareKenneth DeLuca
Chapter 6: Shakespeare's Princess: Education for Love and Rule in The TempestPaul E. Kirkland
Chapter 7: Reading Tolkien through the Lens of Solzhenitsyn's Analysis of Ideology:
On Art, Responsibility, and Progress
Germaine Paulo Walsh
Chapter 8: Social Dance in the Films of Whit Stillman
Carl Eric Scott
Part III - Conversations From Tragedy to Comedy
Chapter 9: History, Tragedy and Rebellion in Camus' Adaptation of Faulkner's Requiem for a NunDenise SchaefferChapter 10: A Vindication of Novels: Jane Austen's Conversation with Mary Wollstonecraft
Natalie Fuehrer Taylor
Chapter 11: From Tragedy to Love: Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
Sara MacDonald
Chapter 12: The Tragic and the Equitable in Aristotle's Poetics and Ethics
Stephen Sims

About the author

Edited by Matthew D. Dinan; Natalie Taylor; Denise Schaeffer and Paul E. Kirkland - Contributions by Stephen Block; Patrick Cain; Kenneth DeLuca; Matthew D. Dinan; Paul E. Kirkland; Sara MacDonald; Daniel Mahoney; Denise Schaeffer; Carl Eric Scott; Stephe

Product details

• Authors: Matthew D. Taylor Dinan
• Assisted by: Matthew D Dinan (Editor), Matthew D. Dinan (Editor), Paul E Kirkland (Editor), Paul E. Kirkland (Editor), Kirkland Paul E. (Editor), Denise Schaeffer (Editor), Schaeffer Denise (Editor), Natalie Taylor (Editor), Taylor Natalie (Editor), Lee Trepanier (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.05.2021
• EAN: 9781498585897
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8589-7
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Politics, Literature, & Film
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political science & theory, Literature: history & criticism, Political science and theory, Literature: history and criticism