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Literature of Friendship  
Plato's critique of the Greek model of friendship as an erotic relationship between men and his concept of love as the philosophical pursuit of wisdom. Montaigne and the interrelation of literature and friendship. Plato's and Montaigne's idea that literature is a dialogue with a potential friend--the reader. Interracial friendship, brotherhood, and democracy in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. Friendship between two African American women in Toni Morrison's Sula.
Program 142
  Participants
Edwin Duval
Ivy Schweitzer
Cheryl Wall

 

 
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