Mapping the ethical turn : a reader in ethics, culture, and literary theory /
edited by Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack.
- Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2001.
- xiv, 296 p. ; 25 cm. NFIC
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: Preface: Reading Literature and the Ethics of Criticism -- TODD F. DAVIS AND KENNETH WOMACK -- THEORY AND THE ETHICS OF LITERARY STUDY -- A Humanistic Ethics of Reading -- DANIEL R. SCHWARZ -- Why Ethical Criticism Can Never Be Simple -- WAYNE C. BOOTH -- Lyrical Ethics and Literary Experience -- CHARLES ALTIERI -- Exactly and Responsibly: A Defense of Ethical Criticism -- MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM -- CONFRONTING THE DIFFICULT: -- THE ETHICS OF RACE AND POWER -- Who Has the Right to Feel? The Ethics of Literary Empathy -- KATHLEEN LUNDEEN -- Sethe's Choice: Beloved and the Ethics of Reading -- JAMES PHELAN -- Moral Repair and Its Limits -- MARGARET URBAN WALKER -- MAKING DARKNESS VISIBLE: THE ETHICAL -- IMPLICATIONS OF NARRATIVE AS WITNESS -- Ethics before Politics: J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace -- JAMES MEFFAN AND KIM L. WORTHINGTON -- The List Is Life: Schindler' List as Ethical Construct -- TODD F. DAVIS AND KENNETH WOMACK -- Poets of Testimony: C. K. Williams and Jacqueline Osherow -- as Proxy Witnesses of the Shoah -- SUSAN GUBAR -- WAYS OF SEEING: THE DIVERSITY OF -- APPLIED ETHICAL CRITICISM -- Forget the Phallic Symbolism, Consider the Snake: Biocentrism -- and Language in Margaret Atwood's "Snake Poems" -- IAN MARSHALL -- Making, Taking, and Faking Lives: Ethical Problems in -- Collaborative Life Writing -- G. THOMAS COUSER -- The Scandal of Human Countenance: Witold Gombrowicz -- and Bruno Schulz in Exile from the Country of Forms -- ADAM ZACHARY NEWTON -- Henry James, Moral Philosophers, Moralism -- CORA DIAMOND -- How to Be "in Tune with the Right" in The Golden Bowl -- J. HILLIS MILLER -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
0813920566 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0813920558 (alk. paper)
2001002051
Criticism--Moral and ethical aspects.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
PN98.M67 / M37 2001
801/.95
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: Preface: Reading Literature and the Ethics of Criticism -- TODD F. DAVIS AND KENNETH WOMACK -- THEORY AND THE ETHICS OF LITERARY STUDY -- A Humanistic Ethics of Reading -- DANIEL R. SCHWARZ -- Why Ethical Criticism Can Never Be Simple -- WAYNE C. BOOTH -- Lyrical Ethics and Literary Experience -- CHARLES ALTIERI -- Exactly and Responsibly: A Defense of Ethical Criticism -- MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM -- CONFRONTING THE DIFFICULT: -- THE ETHICS OF RACE AND POWER -- Who Has the Right to Feel? The Ethics of Literary Empathy -- KATHLEEN LUNDEEN -- Sethe's Choice: Beloved and the Ethics of Reading -- JAMES PHELAN -- Moral Repair and Its Limits -- MARGARET URBAN WALKER -- MAKING DARKNESS VISIBLE: THE ETHICAL -- IMPLICATIONS OF NARRATIVE AS WITNESS -- Ethics before Politics: J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace -- JAMES MEFFAN AND KIM L. WORTHINGTON -- The List Is Life: Schindler' List as Ethical Construct -- TODD F. DAVIS AND KENNETH WOMACK -- Poets of Testimony: C. K. Williams and Jacqueline Osherow -- as Proxy Witnesses of the Shoah -- SUSAN GUBAR -- WAYS OF SEEING: THE DIVERSITY OF -- APPLIED ETHICAL CRITICISM -- Forget the Phallic Symbolism, Consider the Snake: Biocentrism -- and Language in Margaret Atwood's "Snake Poems" -- IAN MARSHALL -- Making, Taking, and Faking Lives: Ethical Problems in -- Collaborative Life Writing -- G. THOMAS COUSER -- The Scandal of Human Countenance: Witold Gombrowicz -- and Bruno Schulz in Exile from the Country of Forms -- ADAM ZACHARY NEWTON -- Henry James, Moral Philosophers, Moralism -- CORA DIAMOND -- How to Be "in Tune with the Right" in The Golden Bowl -- J. HILLIS MILLER -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
0813920566 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0813920558 (alk. paper)
2001002051
Criticism--Moral and ethical aspects.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
PN98.M67 / M37 2001
801/.95