People known to Bernard Shaw had every reason to fear becoming recognisable characters in his plays. However, as eminent Shaw scholar Stanley Weintraub reveals in this collection, Shaw's relationships to real or imagined personalities could be both curiously unexpected and delic…
These essays explore central aspects of the ethical content of literature: character, its formation, and its role in moral discernment; poetic vision in the context of ethical understanding; self-identity and self-understanding; literature's role in moral growth and change; and …
In recent years, the methods of modern narrative theory have become essential tools for researching ancient texts. This work analyzes figural perspectives in the Civil War epic Pharsalia by the Roman poet Lucan (39-65 AD), and describes their function in communicating the overal…
