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Textual ethos studies, or Locating ethics /
What is the relationship between texts and ethics? Who decides the ethics of a text, the writer or the reader? What happens to ethics in texts that portray dreams or psychoses? Is violence always inherently unethical? In dealing with others is violence to both them and oneself ever completely avoida...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2005.
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| Colección: | Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
v. 26. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION: Textual Ethos Studies-or Locating Ethics; The Novel, the Social and the Event: An International Ethical Encounter; Execrable Speech: Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Bagatelles pour un Massacre; The Grotesque on Fleshing Out the Subject of Ethics; Playing Ball With God: Breaking the Law in Breaking the Waves; Post-textual Ethics: Foucault's Rhetorical Will; Shakespeare's Othello: Jealousy and Hermeneutics; The Ethics of Modality in Pauline Smith's "The Sisters"; Telling Stories: Alterity and Ethics in John Banville's The Untouchable and Shroud.
- "All this tractate is but a dream": The Ethics of Dream Narration in Thomas Nashe's The Terrors of the NightReading Kristeva and Beyond: Psychoanalysis As Textual Ethics; Bodily Formations and Reading Strategies in John Donne's Metempsychosis; Checkpoint Syndrome: Violence, Madness, and Ethics in the Hebrew Literature of the Intifada; The Uses and Abuses of Children: Fairy Tales and the Pornographic; Representations of Rape in Apartheid and Post-apartheid South African Literature; Nightwood and the Limits of Representation.
- David Mamet's Altered Ethics: Finding Forgiveness or Something Like It, in House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, and State and Main"Your otherness is perfect as my death": The Ethics and Aesthetics of Li-Young Lee's Poetry; The Look of Ethics: Emmanuel Levinas, Léo Bronstein, and the Interhuman Intrigue; A Mind Poised Between Desires: The Ethos of T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Criticism; Sentimentality in Postmodernist Fiction: From Ethical Problem to Ethical Possibility; Notes on the contributors; Index.