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Uses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding
nonhuman animals, old human beings, disabled human beings, and
cloned posthumans Literary Bioethics argues for literature as an
untapped and essential site for the exploration of bioethics.
Novels, Maren Tova Linett argues, present vividly imagined worlds
in which certain values hold sway, casting new light onto those
values; and the more plausible and well rendered readers find these
imagined worlds, the more thoroughly we can evaluate the justice of
those values. In an innovative set of readings, Linett thinks
through the ethics of animal experimentation in H.G. Wells's The
Island of Doctor Moreau, explores the elimination of aging in
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, considers the valuation of
disabled lives in Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away, and
questions the principles of humane farming through reading Kazuo
Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. By analyzing novels published at widely
spaced intervals over the span of a century, Linett offers
snapshots of how we confront questions of value. In some cases the
fictions are swayed by dominant devaluations of nonnormative or
nonhuman lives, while in other cases they confirm the value of such
lives by resisting instrumental views of their worth-views that
influence, explicitly or implicitly, many contemporary bioethical
discussions, especially about the value of disabled and nonhuman
lives. Literary Bioethics grapples with the most fundamental
questions of how we value different kinds of lives, and questions
what those in power ought to be permitted to do with those lives as
we gain unprecedented levels of technological prowess.
Uses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding
nonhuman animals, old human beings, disabled human beings, and
cloned posthumans Literary Bioethics argues for literature as an
untapped and essential site for the exploration of bioethics.
Novels, Maren Tova Linett argues, present vividly imagined worlds
in which certain values hold sway, casting new light onto those
values; and the more plausible and well rendered readers find these
imagined worlds, the more thoroughly we can evaluate the justice of
those values. In an innovative set of readings, Linett thinks
through the ethics of animal experimentation in H.G. Wells's The
Island of Doctor Moreau, explores the elimination of aging in
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, considers the valuation of
disabled lives in Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away, and
questions the principles of humane farming through reading Kazuo
Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. By analyzing novels published at widely
spaced intervals over the span of a century, Linett offers
snapshots of how we confront questions of value. In some cases the
fictions are swayed by dominant devaluations of nonnormative or
nonhuman lives, while in other cases they confirm the value of such
lives by resisting instrumental views of their worth-views that
influence, explicitly or implicitly, many contemporary bioethical
discussions, especially about the value of disabled and nonhuman
lives. Literary Bioethics grapples with the most fundamental
questions of how we value different kinds of lives, and questions
what those in power ought to be permitted to do with those lives as
we gain unprecedented levels of technological prowess.
Originally published in 2007, Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness
explores the aesthetic and political roles performed by Jewish
characters in women's fiction between the World Wars. Focusing
mainly on British modernism, it argues that female authors enlist a
multifaceted vision of Jewishness to help them shape fictions that
are thematically daring and formally experimental. Maren Linett
analyzes the meanings and motifs that Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys,
Sylvia Townsend Warner, Dorothy Richardson, and Djuna Barnes
associate with Jewishness. The writers' simultaneous identification
with and distancing from Jews produced complex portrayals in which
Jews serve at times as models for the authors' art, and at times as
foils against which their writing is defined. By examining the
political and literary power of Semitic discourse for these key
women authors, Linett fills a significant gap in the account of the
cultural and literary forces that shaped modernism.
Women played a central role in literary modernism, theorizing,
debating, writing, and publishing the critical and imaginative work
that resulted in a new literary culture during the early twentieth
century. This volume provides a thorough overview of the main
genres, the important issues, and the key figures in women's
writing during the years 1890-1945. The essays treat the work of
Woolf, Stein, Cather, H. D. Barnes, Hurston, and many others in
detail; they also explore women's salons, little magazines,
activism, photography, film criticism, and dance. Written
especially for this Companion, these lively essays introduce
students and scholars to the vibrant field of women's modernism.
Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness explores the aesthetic and
political roles performed by Jewish characters in women??'s fiction
between the World Wars. Focusing mainly on British modernism, it
argues that female authors enlist a multifaceted vision of
Jewishness to help them shape fictions that are thematically daring
and formally experimental. Maren Linett analyzes the meanings and
motifs that Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Sylvia Townsend Warner,
Dorothy Richardson, and Djuna Barnes associate with Jewishness. The
writers??? simultaneous identification with and distancing from
Jews produced complex portrayals in which Jews serve at times as
models for the authors??? art, and at times as foils against which
their writing is defined. By examining the political and literary
power of Semitic discourse for these key women authors, Linett
fills a significant gap in the account of the cultural and literary
forces that shaped modernism.
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