Prison narratives from Boethius to Zana
Introduction / Philip Edward Phillips and John R. Vile -- Boethius, the prisoner, and the consolation of philosophy / Philip Edward Phillips -- "For this was drawyn by a knyght presoner": Sir Thomas Malory and the confined body / Amy S. Kaufman -- The self-incriminator: John Lilburne, the...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY [u.a.]
Palgrave Macmillan
2014
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| In: | Year: 2014 |
| Edition: | 1. ed. |
| Online Access: |
Cover Table of Contents |
| Availability in Tübingen: | Present in Tübingen. UB: KB 20 A 7124 |
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| Summary: | Introduction / Philip Edward Phillips and John R. Vile -- Boethius, the prisoner, and the consolation of philosophy / Philip Edward Phillips -- "For this was drawyn by a knyght presoner": Sir Thomas Malory and the confined body / Amy S. Kaufman -- The self-incriminator: John Lilburne, the Star Chamber, and the English origins of American liberty / Robb McDaniel -- John Bunyan, Pilgrim's progress, and nonconformist prison literature / Brett Hudson -- Henry David Thoreau and the principle of passive resistance / Tom Strawman -- The radicalization of Louise Michel / Nancy Sloan Goldberg -- "From prison to people": how women jailed for suffrage inscribed their prison experience upon the American public / Jane Marcellus -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer: an exemplar of costly discipleship in action / John R. Vile -- "The jail house is full of blues": Lead Belly's Prison pleas / Mark Allan Jackson -- The autobiography of Malcolm X and the African American quest for freedom and literacy / Laura Dubek -- Mehdi Zana and the struggle for Kurdish ethnic identity / Kari Neely |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | VIII, 248 S. |
| ISBN: | 9781137428677 1137428678 |