Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory

ISBN-13: 9780813920559 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 336 str.

Todd F. Davis; Kenneth Womack

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Divided into four descriptive sections---Theory and the Ethics of Literary Text, - -Confronting the Difficult: The Ethics of Race and Power, - -Making Darkness Visible: The Ethical Implications of Narrative as Witness, - and -Ways of Seeing: The Diversity of Applied Ethical Criticism---this unprecedented collection of essays traces the interpretive, pedagogic, and theoretical concerns inherent in the study of literature, ethics, and modes of criticism. Wayne C. Booth's -Why Ethical Criticism Can Never Be Simple, - J. Hillis Miller's -How to Be 'in Tune with the Right' in The Golden Bowl, - Susan Gubar's -Poets of Testimony, - and Martha C. Nussbaum's -Exactly and Responsibly: A Defense of Ethical Criticism- are among the fifteen essays included. Bringing together ethical criticism's most important theorists, Mapping the Ethical Turn is a cohesive introduction to a reading paradigm that continues to influence the ways in which we think and feel about the stories that mark our lives.