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The ethics of literature, formalists have insisted, resides in the moral quality of a character, a story, perhaps the relation between author and reader. But in the wake of deconstruction and various forms of criticism focusing on difference, the ethical question has been freshly engaged by literary...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Newton, Adam Zachary
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Ethics in literature.
Fiction > Moral and ethical aspects.
Philosophy, Modern > 20th century.
Ethics, Modern > 20th century.
Narration (Rhetoric)
American fiction > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
English literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Morale dans la littérature.
Roman > Aspect moral.
Philosophie > 20e siècle.
Morale > 20e siècle.
Narration.
Roman américain > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
English literature > Theory, etc.
Ethics in literature
Ethics, Modern
Fiction > Moral and ethical aspects
Philosophy, Modern
Vertelkunst.
Fictie.
Ethiek.
Engels.
Literatuurkritiek.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Narrative as ethics
  • Toward a narrative ethics
  • We die in the last word: Conrad's Lord Jim and Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
  • Lessons of (for) the master: short fiction by Henry James
  • Creating the uncreated features of his face: monstration in Crane, Melville, and Wright
  • Telling others: secrecy and recognition in Dickens, Barnes, and Ishiguro.

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