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Dark mirror : the sense of injustice in modern European and American literature
- Title
- Dark mirror : the sense of injustice in modern European and American literature / by Richhard Clark Sterne.
- Author
- Sterne, Richard Clark, 1927-
- Publication
- New York : Fordham University Press, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN3499 .S73 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxiii, 280 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-272) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Idealistic vs. Realistic Conceptions of Justice from Homer to George Eliot -- 2. The Sense of Injustice in Modern Religious Fiction. Tolstoy, "God Sees the Truth, But Waits": Resurrection. Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov. Mauriac, Therese Desqueyroux -- 3. The Sense of Injustice in Modern Social Fiction. Martin du Gard, Jean Barois. Dreiser, An American Tragedy. Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Koestler, Darkness at Noon -- 4. The Sense of Injustice in Modern Absurdist Fiction. Melville, Billy Budd. Kafka, The Trial. Camus, The Outsider. Kundera, The Joke -- 5. A "Dissenting" Perspective. Cozzens, The Just and the Unjust. Snow, The Sleep of Reason -- Conclusion: Toward a Renewal of the Dialogue. Betti, The Landslide. Wright, Native Son. Glaspell, "A Jury of Her Peers" Porter, "Noon Wine" Anouilh, Antigone. Muschg, "Reparations or Making Good" Forster, A Passage to India. Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.
- ISBN
- 0823215091 :
- 0823215105 (pbk.) :
- LCCN
- 93017963
- OCLC
- ocm28183018
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries