Literature and human equality
Presents Western literature from Shakespeare, Dickens, and others, to show how they changed the appearance of literature with new ways of constructing a tale. This book explores what happens when we, as readers, are denied knowledge not only for the sake of suspense, but because ignorance belongs to what we have in common, the human condition.
Print Book, English, ©2006
Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill., ©2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
167 pages ; 24 cm.
9780810123236, 9780810123250, 0810123231, 0810123258
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The Odyssey : inequality of knowledge
Callirhoe : equal protagonists
Notes on Shakespearean equality
Great expectations : "absolute equality"
War and peace : the presence of the unknown
"The death of Ivan Ilych" : text vs. author
Quixotism in The brothers Karamazov
Reflections : literature and human equality