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Mapping the ethical turn : a reader in ethics, culture, and literary theory / edited by Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack.

Contributor(s): Davis, Todd F, 1965- | Womack, Kenneth
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Charlottesville, Va. : University Press of Virginia, 2001Description: xiv, 296 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0813920566 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0813920558 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Criticism -- Moral and ethical aspects | Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticismDDC classification: 801/.95 LOC classification: PN98.M67 | M37 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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 Nussbaum -- 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 -- Ethics before politics: J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace / James Meffan and Kim L. Worthington -- The list is life: Schindler's 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 -- 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Nussbaum -- 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 -- Ethics before politics: J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace / James Meffan and Kim L. Worthington -- The list is life: Schindler's 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 -- 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.

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