Poetic Justice
Subtitle: The Literary Imagination and Public Life (Alexander Rosenthal Lectures)
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: February 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780807041086
Subjects: Politics - Current Events; Theory Of Literature; Philosophy; Political Science; General; Literature And Society; Politics and literature
First sentence: Noting in his children a strange and unsavory exuberance of imagination, an unwholesome flowering of sentiment-in short, a lapse from that perfect scientific rationality on which both private and public life, when well managed, depend-Mr. Gradgrind, economist, public man, and educator, inquires into the cause: "Whether," said Mr. Gradgrind, pondering with his hands in his pockets, and his cavernous eyes on the fire, "whether any instructor or servant can have suggested anything?