Understanding Public Debates
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Understanding Public Debates

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<P>By historicizing and contextualizing them through readings of carefully selected literary texts, literary studies can contribute to understanding and rationalizing key debates waged in many pluralist societies today ¿ whether on different conceptions of liberty, identity politics, historical commemoration, challenges of globalization or responses to climate change. <I>Understanding Public Debates </I>presents case studies including Milton''s <I>Paradise Lost, </I>P.B. Shelley''s 1820 <I>Reform </I>essay, Philip Roth''s <I>The Human Stain</I>, the songwriting of Neil Young and Edward Young''s 1720s <EM>Sea Odes</EM>, recent climate fiction as well as non-literary conflict narratives. Rather than mining texts for arguments for or against certain positions, this book is interested in <I>how</I> texts stage these debates by means of multiple perspectives, narrative situations or ambiguities. By suggesting how educators might use literary texts as conversation starters for more rational

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