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Literature and the Renewal of the Public Sphere

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Editors:
  1. Susan VanZanten Gallagher

    1. Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, USA

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  2. M. D. Walhout

    1. Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, USA

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Part of the book series: Cross Currents in Religion and Culture (CCRC)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: The Public Muse

    • M. D. Walhout
    Pages 1-13

  3. Enacting the Bonds of Love in King Lear

    • Lionel Basney
    Pages 14-31

  4. Dostoevsky and the Prisoner

    • Paul J. Contino
    Pages 32-52

  5. Unmasking the Idol of the Market in ‘Bartleby’

    • Clarence Walhout
    Pages 53-67

  6. Constructing Female Public Identity: Gaskell on Brontë

    • Pamela Corpron Parker
    Pages 68-82

  7. Auden and the Dream of Public Poetry

    • Alan Jacobs
    Pages 83-104

  8. Narrative Labour in Raymond Carver

    • Michael Vander Weele
    Pages 105-121

  9. Sherman Alexie: Walking with Skeletons

    • Janet Blumberg
    Pages 122-138

  10. Denis Johnson’s Strange Light

    • James Champion
    Pages 139-151

  11. The Fate of French Poetry

    • Glenn W. Fetzer
    Pages 152-169

  12. Woza South Africa! A Postcolonial Public Sphere

    • Susan Zanten Van Gallagher
    Pages 170-190

  13. Rushdie, Said and the Global Public Sphere

    • M. D. Walhout
    Pages 191-205

  14. Creative Border Crossing in New Public Culture

    • Lambert Zuidervaart
    Pages 206-224

  15. Storytelling, Suffering and the Public Sphere

    • Colin Jager
    Pages 225-241

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 242-247
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, USA

    Susan VanZanten Gallagher, M. D. Walhout

About the editors

LIONEL BASNEY English Department, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan JANET L. BLUMBERG English Department, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle JAMES W. CHAMPION English Department, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle PAUL J. CONTINO Christ College, Valparaiso University, Indiana GLENN FETZER French Department, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan ALAN JACOBS English Department, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois COLIN JAGER Ph.D. Student in English, University of Michigan PAMELA CORPRON PARKER English Department, Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington MICHAEL VANDER WEELE English Department, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, Illinois CLARENCE P. WALHOUT formerly English Department, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan LAMBERT ZUIDERVAART Philosophy Department, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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