| Description |
viii,294 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Literature, culture, theory |
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Literature, culture, theory.
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| Contents |
Introduction: the turn to ethics in the 1990s / David Parker -- I. Ethics, Literature, and Philosophy. 1. Deepening the self: The language of ethics and the language of literature / Simon Haines. 2. Martha Nussbaum and the need for novels / Cora Diamond. 3. The concept of dread: Sympathy and ethics in Daniel Deronda / Lisabeth During. 4. Against tidiness: Literature and/versus moral philosophy / Jane Adamson -- II. Ethics and Agency. 5. What differences can contemporary poetry make in our moral thinking? / Charles Altieri. 6. Moral luck in Paris: A Moveable Feast and the ethics of autobiography / Richard Freadman. 7. The unseemly profession: Privacy, inviolate personality, and the ethics of life writing / Paul John Eakin. 8. The patient writes back: Bioethics and the illness narrative / John Wiltshire -- III. Politics and Ethics. 9. Literature, power, and the recovery of philosophical ethics / C. A. J. Coady and Seumas Miller |
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10. The literary imagination in public life / Martha C. Nussbaum. 11. Ethics in many different voices / Annette C. Baier. 12. Common understanding and individual voices / Raimond Gaita |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Criticism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Ethics in literature.
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Ethics.
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Literary ethics.
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Literature and morals.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Adamson, Jane.
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Freadman, Richard, 1951-
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Parker, David, 1943-
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| LC no. |
99211222 |
| ISBN |
0521620791 |
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0521629381 |
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