Political Narrations Antigone, the Melian Dialogue, Michael Kohlhaas, the Grand Inquisitor and Ragtime /

• Main Author: Juchler, Ingo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Political science.; Political philosophy.; Comparative literature.; Cultural studies.; Philology.; Linguistics.; Political Science.; Political Philosophy.; Comparative Literature.; Cultural Studies.; Language and Literature.

This book analyzes narrations embedded in political disputes, allowing readers to gain a deeper understanding of modern political reality. The author explores this theme in readings of the Sophocles tragedy Antigone, the Melian Dialogue of Thucydides, Heinrich von Kleist's novella Michael Kohlh...

Table of Contents:

• 1.The Narrative Approach to Civic Education
• 2.Sophocles: Antigone
• 3.Thucydides: The Melian Dialogue
• 4.Heinrich von Kleist: Michael Kohlhaas.-5.Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Grand Inquisitor
• 6.E. L. Doctorow: Ragtime.