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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"ethics of reading"”.
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Neo-Victorianism and empathy : time, affect, and the ethics of reading
… bear upon one other in order to interrogate the ethics of reading neo-Victorian literature. I present neo-Victorian literature as a genre defined by its contemporary exploitation of, and experimentation with, ‘empathetic narrative’ (Sylvia Adamson, 2001) and, in contrast with the historical …
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The Ethics of Reading: Levinas and Gadamer on encountering the other in literature
… we encounter the Other through the mediation of literature?’ The question reflects an increasing interest in ethics by literary theorists and particularly in the application of Emmanuel Levinas’s work to the field of literary studies. I identify a major concern with this trend that has been …
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Responsible responding: the ethics of a literary criticism of the Other
… works both stage, and are, irruptions of otherness into our familiar worlds, and they pose the question: what is our responsibility towards the Other?’ (Attridge 2005: JM Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event, xii), is conceptually rooted in Attridge’s tour de …
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"This Link between Narrative and Reality": Weighing the Ethics and Implications of Trauma in The Moviegoer
… received critical attention in the form of either biographical criticism or allegorical interpretation. Problematically, however, in seeking to reconcile the imaginative work of his fiction with Percy's philosophical and theological commitments--and with the novel's moral and polemical …
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Contextualizing narrative theory: reading the politics of formal innovation in contemporary women's fiction
… thesis contends, is to neglect a vital dimension of their politics. Narratology provides productive analytical tools to illuminate the complex and varied mechanics of narrative form, yet it also bears the traces of its structuralist origins. Its value is therefore contingent upon its continuing …
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Lyric Subjectivity, Ethics, Contemporary Poetics: Claudia Rankine, Fanny Howe, Elizabeth Robinson
<p>This dissertation investigates ethics and lyric subjectivity in the writings of three American women poets. I consider select poems and poetics of Claudia Rankine, Fanny Howe, and Elizabeth Robinson, in order to argue that their postlanguage lyric poetry retains lyric subjectivity and …