The language of ethics and community in Graham Greene's fiction / Paula Martín Salván.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martín Salván, Paula, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greene, Graham, 1904-1991--Criticism and interpretation.

Greene, Graham.

Greene, Graham, 1904-1991.

Ethics in literature.

Communities in literature.

Greene, Graham, 1904-1991--Technique.

Greene, Graham, 1904-1991--Literary style.

Literary style.

Technique.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 171 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

"This book maps out the lexico-conceptual articulation of Greene's narrative dramatization of ethical situations. This main aim issues from three working hypotheses: in the first place, a reduced set of terms such as peace, despair, pity or commitment have a striking lexical recurrence in Greene's texts. They are considered here as keywords that articulate his discourse at a conceptual level. In the second place, those keywords are invested with narrative potential. They have the capacity to generate narrative situations and developments. In the third place, they articulate a particular narrative pattern. Such lexico-conceptual articulation is shaped mainly as ethical conflict dramatized in narrative form. Drawing on contemporary theories of community and ethics developed by Jean-Luc Nancy, Maurice Blanchot, J. Hillis Miller or Derek Attridge, this book sets out to explore a recurrent narrative pattern in Greene's work, emerging from his personal use of the language of ethics and community"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

1. Introduction: Occasions for Unselfing

2. Peace

3. Despair

4. Bargain

5. Pity and Compassion

6. Commitment

7. Caritas

8. Conclusion: The Ethics of Reading (Graham Greene)

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137540102

1137540109

OCLC:

909320958