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The language of ethics and community in Graham Greene's fiction
- Title
- The language of ethics and community in Graham Greene's fiction / Paula Martín Salván.
- Author
- Martín Salván, Paula
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 15-4393 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- vii, 171 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This book maps out the lexico-conceptual articulation of Greene's narrative dramatization of ethical situations. This main aim issues from three working hypotheses: in the first place, a reduced set of terms such as peace, despair, pity or commitment have a striking lexical recurrence in Greene's texts. They are considered here as keywords that articulate his discourse at a conceptual level. In the second place, those keywords are invested with narrative potential. They have the capacity to generate narrative situations and developments. In the third place, they articulate a particular narrative pattern. Such lexico-conceptual articulation is shaped mainly as ethical conflict dramatized in narrative form. Drawing on contemporary theories of community and ethics developed by Jean-Luc Nancy, Maurice Blanchot, J. Hillis Miller or Derek Attridge, this book sets out to explore a recurrent narrative pattern in Greene's work, emerging from his personal use of the language of ethics and community"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-166) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Occasions for Unselfing -- 1. Peace -- 2. Bargain -- 3. Despair -- 4. Pity and Compassion -- 5. Commitment -- 6. Caritas -- Conclusion: The Ethics of Reading (Graham Greene).
- Call Number
- JFD 15-4393
- ISBN
- 9781137540102 (hardback)
- 1137540109 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2015018337
- OCLC
- 909320958
- Author
- Martín Salván, Paula, author.
- Title
- The language of ethics and community in Graham Greene's fiction / Paula Martín Salván.
- Publisher
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-166) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-4393