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Literature and Ethics - Questions of Responsibility in Literary Studies (Hardcover, New)
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Literature and Ethics - Questions of Responsibility in Literary Studies (Hardcover, New)
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Literature and Ethics covers a wide gamut of literary periods and
genres, including essays on Victorian literature and modernism, as
well as several studies on narrative, but the central ethos emerges
from considerations of issues of responsibility and
irresponsibility as they find expression in literary study, and in
ethics. Students and academics who are interested in literary
theory, ethics, narrative form, and issues of authorial
responsibility, and how such matters inform the reading of literary
texts, will find that this collection offers a wide array of
approaches and viewpoints by major figures from the relevant
sub-disciplines in literary studies. The collection offers
much-timely critical observation on a variety of contemporary
authors but also provides critically adventurous commentaries on
Victorian literature, and on Indian, African, Irish, and Australian
literature. The volume assembles a collection of essays that would
illustrate the great diversity of methods by which considerations
of responsibility can and do offer insight into a range of literary
texts, and theoretical discourses, while also making a contribution
to the philosophical question of responsibility (and
irresponsibility) in the contemporary world. The collection as a
whole testifies to the human fascination with issues of
responsibility, just as it testifies to the necessity of posing
questions of responsibility as questions of ethics and literature,
the necessity of recognizing, in other words, that "responsibility"
names a concept whose only ground is the history of those fictional
narratives of responsibility and irresponsibility that modern
civilization would do well to continue inventing and reflecting
upon critically. So whether ethical discourses find expression in
theoretical debate--or in and through the sophisticated fictions
that constitute an imaginative culture--what is clear, both from
wider discussions related to the value of literary texts that are
such a central part of contemporary literary studies, and from the
varied and nuanced arguments that are made in this collection, is
that questions of responsibility are central to literature,
philosophy, and the arts, just as they are to the social realities
that spawned them in the first place. Literature and Ethics is an
important book for all literature and literary theory collections.
It has specific resonance for students and teachers who are
interested in the value of literary study, and in questions of
ethics and narrative.
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