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Distinguished contributors take up eminent scholar Daniel R. Schwarz's reading of modern fiction and poetry as mediating between human desire and human action. The essayists follow Schwarz's advice, "always the text, always historicize," thus making this book relevant to current debates about the relationships between literature, ethics, aesthetics, and historical contexts.
List of contents
Daniel Morris: Introduction
Paul Gordon: "Approaching Angels: The Case for The Case for a Humanistic Poetics."
Helen F. Maxson: "The Pluralistic Humanism Wendell Berry."
Ruth Hoberman: "The Three-Way Conversation of Gilbert Cannan, Mark Gertler, and D.H. Lawrence."
Ross Murfin: "Of Temples, Prisons, Umbrellas, and Revolutionaries: Culture, Consciousness, and Poetry in D.H. Lawrence."
Brian May: "Yeats's Modernism in Time of Civil War."
Margot Norris: "Female Transmigration in James Joyce's 'Eveline' and Nella Larson's Quicksand."
Ed O'Shea: "From Joyce to Toibin: Postmodern Dublin in Mothers and Sons."
Steve Sicari: "Repetition in Modern Fiction: From Paralysis to Hope."
Beth Newman: "Humanism Under Erasure: Identity and Nation in Joyce's Ulysses."
Joseph Heininger: "Michael O'Siadhail's Inscriptions of Holocaust Survivors' Writings in The Gossamer Wall: "A summons to try to look, to try to see."
Daniel Morris: Historical Memorialization and Personal Memory in Lee Friedlander's Self-Portrait and American Monument."
Holly Stave: "In a Mirror Dimly: The Limitations of Love in Toni Morrison's Love."
Daniel R. Schwarz in conversation with Daniel Morris
Brian W. Shaffer: "A Bibliography of Major Works by Daniel R. Schwarz."
List of Contributors
About the author
Helen Maxson is professor of English at Southwestern Oklahoma State University.
Daniel Morris is professor of English at Purdue University.
