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The ethics in literature
Abstract
The question of ethics has dominated recent developments within the humanities. This volume brings together the most recent theories of ethics and reading and applies them to a wide variety of literary texts. Ethical and literary issues explored by the contributors include biography, sensibility, national identity, feminism, postcolonialism, religion, subjectivity and stylistics. Literary authors and philosophers/theorists discussed range from Shakespeare and Mary Shelley to Michele Roberts and Salman Rushdie, and from Kant and Coleridge to Derrida and Levinas.
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literature and the return to ethics
pp.1-14
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27361-4_1Stephen Spender's World within world
pp.17-37
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27361-4_2Saul Bellow and the problem of the victim
pp.38-51
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27361-4_3transformations of the face in post-Holocaust fiction
pp.52-69
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27361-4_4ethical-stylistic aspects of anarchy in Conrad's the secret agent
pp.86-100
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27361-4_6pp.101-115
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27361-4_7description, evaluation and otherness
pp.119-135
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27361-4_8pp.152-166
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27361-4_10hysterical reading and making theory hysterical
pp.169-183
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27361-4_11catachresis in Kant and Coriolanus
pp.231-247
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27361-4_14Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 1999
Pages: 281
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-27361-4
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-27363-8
ISBN (digital): 978-1-349-27361-4
Full citation:
Hadfield Andrew, Rainsford Dominic, Woods Tim (1999) The ethics in literature. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.