In Defense of Dialogue: Reading Habermas and Postwar American Literature

ISBN-13: 9781032238289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 248 str.

Monika Gehlawat

Opis

In Defense of Dialogue: Reading Habermas and Postwar American Literature offers a timely investigation of the value of dialogue in contemporary American culture.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Why Bother? Literature and Communicative Action

Chapter Two: Love, "Lucky Pierre Style," in Frank O’Hara

Chapter Three: James Baldwin’s Pursuit of Potentiality

Chapter Four: "Ourselves, Our Single Self": Talk as World in Grace Paley

Chapter Five: Andy Warhol’s Philosophy as Dialogue (From A to B and Back Again)

Conclusion: Walk the Talk

O autorze

Monika Gehlawat is Associate Director of the School of Humanities and Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi where she teaches courses on contemporary, modern and world literature, critical theory, and visual art. She has published essays in Post 45: Peer-Reviewed, The James Baldwin Review, Contemporary Literature, and Literary Imagination. She also serves as Critic for the Center for Writers at USM and Series Editor for Literary Conversations.