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This book explores the relationship between literature and ethics, showing how literature and art work to open up a part of ethics that resists traditional philosophy. Focusing on three American Romantic texts--Wieland, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and the Marble Faun--Robert Hughes demo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hughes, Robert, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2010.
Colección:SUNY series, insinuations.
Temas:
1700-1899
American fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Ethics in literature.
Aesthetics in literature.
Psychology and literature.
Roman américain > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Morale dans la littérature.
Esthétique dans la littérature.
Psychologie et littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Aesthetics in literature
American fiction
Ethics in literature
Psychology and literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book explores the relationship between literature and ethics, showing how literature and art work to open up a part of ethics that resists traditional philosophy. Focusing on three American Romantic texts--Wieland, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and the Marble Faun--Robert Hughes demonstrates how each dramatizes the ethical, psychological, and existential imperative to put the experience of our own traumatic limits (death, morality, and being) into poetic language. To develop the theoretical stakes of these literary readings, Hughes also draws on four twentieth century continental thinkers--Jacques Lacan, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and Alain Badiou--each of whom, in his own way, proposed aesthetics or art as an approach to this dimension of ethics. The book also points to an overlooked common lineage, descending from German Romanticism, between American Romanticism and contemporary post-Romantic continental thought: a shared supposition about the limits of reason.
As a mode of presenting the essence of art and ethics, and a shared faith in the promise of literature to speak to, or open up, this subjective space of foundational ethics --Book Jacket.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 231 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index.
ISBN:9781441668431
1441668438
1438431953
9781438431956

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