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245	1	0	_aGoodness and the literary imagination : _bHarvard Divinity School's 95th Ingersoll Lecture : with essays on Morrison's moral and religious vision / _cToni Morrison ; edited by Davíd Carrasco, Stephanie Paulsell, and Mara Willard.
246	3	0	_aHarvard Divinity School's 95th Ingersoll Lecture : with essays on Morrison's moral and religious vision
246	3	0	_aWith essays on Morrison's moral and religious vision
260			_aCharlottesville : _bUniversity of Virginia Press, _c(c)2019.
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 262 pages) : _billustrations.
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aThe Ingersoll lecture ; _v2012
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505	0	0	_tIntroduction: Toni Morrison's religion -- _t"Goodness : Altruism and the literary imagination," Ingersoll Lecture 2012 / _rToni Morrison -- _tHaunted by slavery / _rWalter Johnson -- _tỌmọ Òpìtańdìran, an Africanist griot : Toni Morrison and African epistemology, myths, and literary culture / _rJacob K. Olupona -- _tStructures of stone and rings of light : spirited landscapes in Toni Morrison's Beloved / _rTiya Miles -- _tEvocations of intimacies : comments on Toni Morrison's Home / _rCharles H. Long -- _tMorrison's pietàs as participatory loss and love / _rMara Willard -- _tThe ghost of Love and goodness / _rDavíd Carrasco -- _tDemons and dominion : possession and dispossession in Toni Morrison's A mercy / _rMatthew Potts -- _tMinistry in Paradise / _rStephanie Paulsell -- _tLuminous darkness : Africanist presence and the American soul / _rJonathan L. Walton -- _tGoing backstage : Soaphead Church and the (religious) problem of goodness in The bluest eye / _rBiko Mandela Gray -- _tUnsung no more : Pilate's mercy! Eulogy in Song of Solomon / _rGerald "Jay" Williams -- _tQuiet, as it's kept and lovingly disrupted by Baby Suggs, Holy : on the volume of goodness in Beloved / _rJosslyn Luckett -- _tWriting goodness and mercy : a 2017 interview with Toni Morrison.
520	0		_a"What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters' greatest voices, pondered these perplexing questions in her celebrated Ingersoll Lecture, delivered at Harvard University in 2012 and published now for the first time in book form. Perhaps because it is overshadowed by the more easily defined evil, goodness often escapes our attention. Recalling many literary examples, from Ahab to Coetzee's Michael K, Morrison seeks the essence of goodness and ponders its significant place in her writing. She considers the concept in relation to unforgettable characters from her own works of fiction and arrives at conclusions that are both eloquent and edifying. In a lively interview conducted for this book, Morrison further elaborates on her lecture's ideas, discussing goodness not only in literature but in society and history--particularly black history, which has responded to centuries of brutality with profound creativity. Morrison's essay is followed by a series of responses by scholars in the fields of religion, ethics, history, and literature to her thoughts on goodness and evil, mercy and love, racism and self-destruction, language and liberation, together with close examination of literary and theoretical expressions from her works. Each of these contributions, written by a scholar of religion, considers the legacy of slavery and how it continues to shape our memories, our complicities, our outcries, our lives, our communities, our literature, and our faith. In addition, the contributors engage the religious orientation in Morrison's novels so that readers who encounter her many memorable characters such as Sula, Beloved, or Frank Money will learn and appreciate how Morrison's notions of goodness and mercy also reflect her understanding of the sacred and the human spirit"--Publisher's website.
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600	1	0	_aMorrison, Toni _xCriticism and interpretation.
600	1	0	_aMorrison, Toni _xHistory and criticism.
600	1	0	_aMorrison, Toni _xReligion.
600	1	0	_aMorrison, Toni _xEthics.
650		0	_aGood and evil in literature.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aMorrison, Toni, _e1
700	1		_aCarrasco, Davíd, _e5
700	1		_aPaulsell, Stephanie, _d1962- _e5
700	1		_aWillard, Mara, _e5
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2358341&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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