Out of Anger Out of Love - Essays on Language, War, and Belief

The drama of individual loyalties under challenge can also be a mirror for issues affecting the greater society. Faith and patriotism are prominent among the issue John Savant addresses in a series of essays ranging from the perennial association of violence with religion to the dangerous implications of style in the exercise of political power. A poet, emeritus professor of English, and sports enthusiast, he also discusses correspondences between faith and metaphor, the nature of sport as ritual, adn the insights of Aristotle's Poetics might offer into America's rsponse to the attack on the World Trade Center.