Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Stories of oppression and appeals to freedom
- 2 Language, ethics, and subjectivity in the liberal/communitarian debate
- 3 Theorizing narratives of agency and subjection
- 4 Truth, beauty, and goodness in James's The Ambassadors
- 5 The subject of democracy in the work of Ralph Ellison
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Stories of oppression and appeals to freedom
- 2 Language, ethics, and subjectivity in the liberal/communitarian debate
- 3 Theorizing narratives of agency and subjection
- 4 Truth, beauty, and goodness in James's The Ambassadors
- 5 The subject of democracy in the work of Ralph Ellison
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Theorising Textual SubjectsAgency and Oppression, pp. viiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997