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Literature and Ethics : Essays Presented to A. E. Malloch.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988Copyright date: ©1988Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (180 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773561762
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Literature and EthicsDDC classification:
  • 801/.3
LOC classification:
  • PN49 -- .L57 1988eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- A.E. Malloch -- PART I: FORMS OF INDECISION -- Empson's Generalized Ambiguities -- Custom and Utterance in Hamlet -- Portraits, Effigies, and the Narrative Impulse -- PART II: THE ETHICS OF THE UNSAID -- Jane Austen and the Uses of Silence -- Escaping the Cave: Luce Irigaray and Her Feminist Critics -- From Grammar's Pan to Logic's Fire: Intentionality and Chaucer's Friar's Tale -- PART III: NETWORKS -- Boethius, the Liberal Arts, and Early Medieval Political Theory -- James Joyce - Literary Engineer -- Academic Tenure in the Perspectives of Competition and Collegiality -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.
Summary: Literature and Ethics presents an original definition of the relation between literature and ethics at a time when the whole concept of ethical literary criticism is being widely reconsidered. The book focuses on ethical conditions that are presupposed in literary communication between authors and readers, rather than on ethical themes within literature.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- A.E. Malloch -- PART I: FORMS OF INDECISION -- Empson's Generalized Ambiguities -- Custom and Utterance in Hamlet -- Portraits, Effigies, and the Narrative Impulse -- PART II: THE ETHICS OF THE UNSAID -- Jane Austen and the Uses of Silence -- Escaping the Cave: Luce Irigaray and Her Feminist Critics -- From Grammar's Pan to Logic's Fire: Intentionality and Chaucer's Friar's Tale -- PART III: NETWORKS -- Boethius, the Liberal Arts, and Early Medieval Political Theory -- James Joyce - Literary Engineer -- Academic Tenure in the Perspectives of Competition and Collegiality -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

Literature and Ethics presents an original definition of the relation between literature and ethics at a time when the whole concept of ethical literary criticism is being widely reconsidered. The book focuses on ethical conditions that are presupposed in literary communication between authors and readers, rather than on ethical themes within literature.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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