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The Ethics in Literature
Hadfield
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The question of ethics has dominated recent developments within the humanities. This volume brings together the most recent theories of ethics and reading and applies them to a wide variety of literary texts. Ethical and literary issues explored by the contributors include biography, sensibility, national identity, feminism, postcolonialism, religion, subjectivity and stylistics. Literary authors and philosophers/theorists discussed range from Shakespeare and Mary Shelley to Michele Roberts and Salman Rushdie, and from Kant and Coleridge to Derrida and Levinas.
The question of ethics has dominated recent developments within the humanities. This volume brings together the most recent theories of ethics and reading and applies them to a wide variety of literary texts. Ethical and literary issues explored by the contributors include biography, sensibility, national identity, feminism, postcolonialism, religion, subjectivity and stylistics. Literary authors and philosophers/theorists discussed range from Shakespeare and Mary Shelley to Michele Roberts and Salman Rushdie, and from Kant and Coleridge to Derrida and Levinas.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
292
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
281
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333718865
SKU
V9780333718865
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About Hadfield
JANIS MCLARREN CALDWELL Assistant Professor of English at Wake Forest University ORTWIN DE GRAEF Lecturer in English and Literary Theory at Katholiecke Universiteit Leuven RICHARD FREDMAN Professor of English and Director of the Unit for Studies in Biography and Autobiography at La Trobe University ANDREW GIBSON Reader in English at Royal Holloway, University of London DAVID P. HANEY Associate ... Read more
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