Fighting Evil by Haim Gordon
What can we learn from the novels of Graham Greene? This book argues that Greene's writings have much to teach us about fighting evil here and now, and about endeavoring to live a worthy life. In novels that span half of the twentieth century, Greene related stories of evil persons who destroyed the freedom of others and of a few simple people who fought them. Through these stories he showed us three basic truths: first, evil exists; second, it is possible to fight it; and third, one may attain wisdom and sometimes a very limited glory by undertaking such a struggle. Gordon's study sets forth its own important lesson: thinking and assuming responsibility for the world, guided by the reading of great literature, are keystones of any worthy life.-
Homeric Rhythm
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Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults
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Twenty-Four Ways of Looking at Mary McCarthy
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The Life and Works of Ruskin Bond
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Jane Austen and Eighteenth-Century Courtesy Books
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Literary Selves
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Reluctant Expatriate
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Victorian Writers and the Image of Empire
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Afro-Cuban Literature
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The Myth of Medea and the Murder of Children
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Styles of Ruin
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English Country Life in the Barsetshire Novels of Angela Thirkell
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Seduction and Death in Muriel Spark's Fiction
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Prometheus and Faust
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Demythologizing the Romance of Conquest
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The Novels of Samuel Selvon
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Pearl S. Buck
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Sitting at the Feet of the Past
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True Relations
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George Orwell
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The Tales We Tell
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James Merrill's Poetic Quest
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Smollett's Women
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Orienting Masculinity, Orienting Nation
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The French Revolution Debate in English Literature and Culture
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Imagining Africa
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In My Own Shire
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Becoming True to Ourselves
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The Second Best Bed
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The Decline of the Goddess
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Writing the Body in D.H. Lawrence
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Samuel Johnson and the Essay
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Child of the Earth
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Caliban in Exile
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Naguib Mahfouz's Egypt
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Goethe in the Twentieth Century
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Dostoevski and the Human Condition After a Century
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There Is No Truer Truth
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Aksel Sandemose
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Elmer Diktonius
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Scenarios of Modernist Disintegration
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The Writer Written
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Interactive Fictions
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Per Olof Sundman
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Darkness at Heart
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The Devil's Advocates
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Writing the Good Fight
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Contemporary Polish Theatre and Drama (1956-1984)
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Women Writers in Russian Literature
HAIM GORDON is Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has published widely in philosophy and education and is the author of Naguib Mahfouz's Egypt: Existential Themes in His Writings (Greenwood, 1990) and Make Room for Dreams: Spiritual Challenges to Zionism (Greenwood, 1989), author of Sartre and Evil: Guidelines for a Struggle (Greenwood, 1995), and coeditor of Women's and Men's Liberation: Testimonies of Spirit (Greenwood, 1991). He has been active in the struggle for human rights in Israel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780313295744 |
| ISBN 10 | 0313295743 |
| Title | Fighting Evil |
| Author | Haim Gordon |
| Series | Contributions To The Study Of World Literature Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 1997-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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