Name: Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Harvard'S 95Th Ingersoll Lecture With Essays on Morrison'S Moral and Religious Vision (in English)
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Author: Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9780813943626

portada Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Harvard'S 95Th Ingersoll Lecture With Essays on Morrison'S Moral and Religious Vision (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Toni Morrison

Illustrated by

David Carrasco

Stephanie Paulsell

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

29.5 x 14.0 x 2.1 cm

Weight

0.50 kg.

ISBN13

9780813943626

Synopsis "Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Harvard'S 95Th Ingersoll Lecture With Essays on Morrison'S Moral and Religious Vision (in English)"

What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters' greatest voices, pondered these perplexing questions in her celebrated Ingersoll Lecture, delivered at Harvard University in 2012 and published now for the first time in book form.Perhaps because it is overshadowed by the more easily defined evil, goodness often escapes our attention. Recalling many literary examples, from Ahab to Coetzee's Michael K, Morrison seeks the essence of goodness and ponders its significant place in her writing. She considers the concept in relation to unforgettable characters from her own works of fiction and arrives at conclusions that are both eloquent and edifying. In a lively interview conducted for this book, Morrison further elaborates on her lecture's ideas, discussing goodness not only in literature but in society and history--particularly black history, which has responded to centuries of brutality with profound creativity.Morrison's essay is followed by a series of responses by scholars in the fields of religion, ethics, history, and literature to her thoughts on goodness and evil, mercy and love, racism and self-destruction, language and liberation, together with close examination of literary and theoretical expressions from her works. Each of these contributions, written by a scholar of religion, considers the legacy of slavery and how it continues to shape our memories, our complicities, our outcries, our lives, our communities, our literature, and our faith. In addition, the contributors engage the religious orientation in Morrison's novels so that readers who encounter her many memorable characters such as Sula, Beloved, or Frank Money will learn and appreciate how Morrison's notions of goodness and mercy also reflect her understanding of the sacred and the human spirit.

Toni Morrison

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(Ohio, 1931 - Nueva York, 2019) Chloe Ardelia Wofford, conocida bajo el seudónimo Toni Morrison, es una narradora afroamericana. Alternó su trabajo de profesora de Humanidades en la Universidad de Princeton con la actividad literaria. En sus obras planteó la problemática de la población negra en Estados Unidos, en especial la situación de las mujeres. En 1993 obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Murió en agosto de 2019 en el pequeño pueblo neoyorquino de Grand View-on-Hudson a los ochenta y ocho años de edad.

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