Politics and literature at the turn of the millennium / by Keren, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Politics in literature -- The "original position" in José Saramago's Blindness -- Absurdity and revolt in Cormac McCarthy's The Road -- The bystander's tale : Gil Courtemanche's A Sundady at the Pool in Kigali -- Fiction and the study of slums : Anosh Irani's The Cripple and His Talismans -- Narrative and memory in Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore, Günter Grass's Crabwalk and André Brin's The Rights of Desire -- The politics of victimhood in John Le Carré's Abolute Fiends -- The quest of identity in Sayed Kashua's Let It Be Morning -- Political escapism in contemporary Israel : David Grossman's To the End of the Land -- Body and mind in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake -- A Canadian alternative to the clash of civilizations : Yann Martel's Life of Pi.…”

Geoffrey Hartman : romanticism after the Holocaust / by Vermeulen, Pieter, 1980-

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Battlestar Galactica and philosophy : knowledge here begins out there /

Table of Contents: “…Dunn -- Cylons in the original position : limits of posthuman justice / David Roden -- The arrow, the eye, and earth : the search for a (divine?) …”
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Clearing weather / by Meigs, Cornelia, 1884-1973