The good life and the greater good in a global context /
The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context offers a timely contribution to the debates about the good life that surround us every day in the media, politics, the humanities, and social sciences. The authors' examine the relationship between the good life and the greater good as repr...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2015]
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| ISBN: | 9781498522335 1498522335 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: mapping the global imaginary of the good life / by Laura Savu Walker
- The stoic muse : clues to the good life in English poetry / by Laura Inman
- "Raising the sun" : same-sex love, the good life, and the greater good in the poetry of Ellen Bass / by Lisa Hoffman-Reyes
- "Can I breathe this rarer air?" : exploring the good life in the plays of Susan Glaspell and the camps of the occupy movement / by Susan Gorman
- Rethinking utopia for the twenty-first century : the good life after occupy and the Arab spring / by Joseph Donica
- Capturing amae : why tragedy matters and what it still offers / by Jeremy Killian
- Territorializing the good life : fetishism of commodity and homeland in Nicole Krauss's great house / by Laini Kavaloski
- The mogul ethos and the American dream in contemporary mainstream rap / by Jamila M. Kareem
- The gift of the good life : anchor babies and Asian adoptees / by Jenny Heijun Wills
- The gaps in the wall : the enemy within Gish Jen's American dreams / by Joseph George
- From money to meaning : the pursuit of "fundamentals" in Mohsin Hamid's how to get filthy rich in rising Asia / by Laura Savu Walker
- Courageous play : an ethical practice for the good of (digital) culture / by Katherine Hanzalik
- Making the good life : cultivating green citizenship in Shakespeare's cymbeline / by Patrick Crapanzano
- Denaturing the human conceit for the greater good : an ecocritical perspective / by Ron Milland
- Bibliography.