Research Catalog

Title

Mapping the ethical turn : a reader in ethics, culture, and literary theory / edited by Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack.

Publication

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Davis, Todd F., 1965-
• Womack, Kenneth

Description

xiv, 296 p.; 25 cm.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Criticism > Moral and ethical aspects
• Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface: reading literature and the ethics of criticism / Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack -- A humanistic ethics of reading / Daniel R. Schwarz -- Why ethical criticism can never by simple / Wayne C. Booth -- Lyrical ethics and literary experience / Charles Altieri -- Exactly and responsibly: a defense of ethical criticism / Martha c. Nussbaum -- Who has the right to feel? The ethics of literary empathy /Kathleen Lundeen -- Sethe's choice: Beloved and the ethics of reading / James Phelan -- Moral repair and its limits / Margaret Urban Walker -- Ethics before politics: J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace / James Meffan and Kim L. Worthington -- The list is life: Schindler's List as ethical construct / Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack -- Poets of testimony: : C.K. Williams and Jacqueline Osherow as proxy witnesses of the Shoah / Susan Gubar -- Forget the phallic symbolism, consider the snake: biocentrism and language in Maraget Atwood's "Snake Poems" / Ian Marshall -- Making, taking, and faking lives: ethical problems in collaborative life writing / G. Thomas Couser -- The scandal of human countenance: Witold Gobrowicz and Bruno Schulz in exile from the country of forms / Adam Zachary Newton -- Henry James, moral philosophers, moralism / Cora Diamond -- How to be "in tune with the right" in the Golden Bowl / J. Hillis Miller.

ISBN

• 0813920566 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0813920558 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001002051

OCLC

• 46683982
• SCSB-10693289

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library