Literature, Interpretation, Ethics

ISBN-13: 9781032439792 / Miękka / 2024 / 182 str.

UK) Davis London Colin (St Bartholomew's Hospital

Opis

Literature, Interpretation, and Ethics argues for the centrality of hermeneutics in the context of ongoing debates about the value of literature, and about the role and ethics of literary study.

Spis treści

Contents

 

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Forays

Section 1: Literature and the Hermeneutics of Trust

1.      Does Literature Matter?

2.      The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and the Hermeneutics of Trust: Ricoeur, Gadamer, Camus

3.      Derrida, Deconstruction and Radical Hermeneutics

Section 2: Misreading/Overreading

4.      Overreading: Intentions, Mistakes and Lies

5.      Reading and Overreading: Camus’s Whales

6.      Reading Violence, Violent Reading: Levinas and Hermeneutics

Section 3: Reading/Ethics

7.      Truth, Ethics, Fiction: Responding to Plato’s Challenge

8.      Trauma, Poststructuralism and Ethics

9.      Ethics, Stories and Reading

10.  Interpretation, Ethics and the Limits of Reading: Camus’s La Chute

Conclusion: Forays into Good Reading, Bad Reading, Misreading, Overreading and the Hermeneutics of (Guarded) Trust

O autorze

Colin Davis is Emeritus Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research his mainly in the field of twentieth-century literature, film and theory.