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1 online resource (xii, 313 pages) : color illustrations |
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Value inquiry book series, 0929-8436 ; volume 267. Philosophy, literature, and politics |
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Value inquiry book series ; v. 267. 0929-8436
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Value inquiry book series. Philosophy, literature, and politics. 0929-8436
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; Part One: THEORY; ONE Should We Read or Teach Literature Now?; TWO Narratology, Ethical Turns, Circularities, and a Meta-EthicalWay Out; THREE Ethics, the Diachronization of Narratology, and the Margins of Unreliable Narration; Part Two: ETHICS AND READING; FOUR The Problem of Narratives in the Bible: Moral Issues and Suggested Reading Strategies; FIVE Reading Fiction: Voyeurism without Shame?; SIX An Ethics of Reading Sophisticated Narratives: TheExample of J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello |
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SEVEN Authority, Reliability, and the Challenge of Reading: TheNarrative Ethics of Jonathan Littell's The Kindly OnesPart Three: ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE AUTHOR; EIGHT Ethical Force of Fictionalization in Michael Frayn's Copenhagen; NINE The Ethics of Literary Borrowing: Risks and Rewards; TEN Twain, Huck, Jim, and Us: Or, the Ethics of Progression inHuckleberry Finn; ELEVEN ""Anything But a Simpleton"": The Ethics of RepresentingIntellectual Disability in Tarjei Vesaas's The Birds; Part Four: TEXTUAL STUDIES |
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TWELVE Adam Smith Meets the Devil: Demonic Pacts and MoralSentiments in the Gothic NovelTHIRTEEN The Grieving Mind in Words and Images; FOURTEEN Travels Across Ethical Borders: Anonymity and Space inNadine Gordimer's The Ultimate Safari -- FIFTEEN Narrative Ethics in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings; SIXTEEN The Palpable Lolita: Form and Affect from the Perspectiveof Poetics; SEVENTEEN The Age of Scientific Racism: Internal Focalization and Narrative Ethics in Toni Morrison's Beloved; WORKS CITED; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX |
| Summary |
While Plato recommended expelling poets from the ideal society, W.H. Auden famously declared that poetry makes nothing happen. The 19 contributions to the present book avoid such polarized views and, responding in different ways to the "ethical turn" in narrative theory, explore the varied ways in which narratives encourage readers to ponder matters of right and wrong. All work from the premise that the analysis of narrative ethics needs to be linked to a sensitivity to esthetic (narrative) form. The ethical issues are accordingly located on different levels. Some are clearly presented as the |
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"The chapters of this volume are revised versions of papers given at an international conference on narrative theory and analysis arranged at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo, 19-20 November 2010"--Preface |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Ethics in literature -- Congresses
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Literature and morals -- Congresses
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses
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Fiction -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Ethics in literature
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Fiction -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Literature and morals
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Erzählforschung
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Ethik
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Literatur
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Lothe, Jakob, editor
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Hawthorn, Jeremy, editor
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| ISBN |
9789401209823 |
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9401209820 |
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1306167620 |
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9781306167628 |
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