Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 588 g
ISBN: 978-3-031-58432-9
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
There has been a steady stream of articles written on the relations between ethics and the interpretation of literature, but there remains a need for a book that both introduces and significantly contributes to the field – particularly one that shows how we can think more openly and creatively about the multiform powers of ethical narrative by considering ethically significant literature.
This volume offers an analytically acute and culturally rich way of understanding how it is that we can productively think philosophically about the narrative structures that describe our ethical lives and what kind of distinctive conceptual, and in some cases personal, progress we can make by doing so. Given the extremely widespread interest in ethical issues, this volume will strike resonant chords far and wide on arrival, while offering something new in bringing together the study of long-form narrative, the language of moral psychology, and detailed literary case studies.
Given the vast expansion of narrative studies in recent years, the time for just such a volume is right.
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1.Introduction: Layers of Understanding and Long-Form Narrative, Part 1. To Focus on Ethical Vision rather than Moral Action.- 2. From Wittgenstein to Homer: Ethics, ‘World-Pictures,’ and Iliadic Time, . Murdoch and : John Ames as a Model of Murdochian Virtue, . Patricia Highsmith’s Kierkegaardian Fiction, Part 2. Self-Narration, Self-Deception, and Self-Critique.- 5. Consciousness, Beckett and the (Un)Aware Being: Krapp’s and Winnie’s Wobbly Mindfulness Under the Lens of Phenomenology, . Self-deception and Self-narration: Linklater’s . Shame and Self-Abasement: Bernard Williams, Kant, and J.M. Coetzee, Part 3. Layers of Understanding: Responsibility Reconsidered.- 8. Orwellian Responsibility, - 9. Kant, the Karamazovs, and Hitler’s Pawn, . Storm Jameson’s Phenomenology of Place in Part 4. Unobvious Forms of Moral Progress.- 11. Just Sex in Heller’s ?,12. Imperfect Fiction and Criticism : A Reading of 13. Listening to the Dead: Exploring the in Margaret Atwood’s Part 5. Against Oversimplification.- 14. We all have Plague: Human Nature and Decency in Camus’ 15. Wallace Stevens’ Poetic Realism: The Only Possible Redemption, 16. as an Essay in Long-Arc Ethical Understanding,
