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Ethics, aesthetics, and the beyond of language / Robert Hughes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Robert, 1968-
- Series:
- SUNY series, insinuations.
- SUNY series, insinuations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Ethics in literature.
- Aesthetics in literature.
- Psychology and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores why American Romantic writers and contemporary continental thinkers turn to art when writing about ethics.
- Contents:
- Sleepy Hollow: fearful pleasures and the nightmare of history
- Lacan and the beyond of language: from art to ethics
- Brown's Wieland and the ethical circumscription of death
- Heideggerian ethics: the voice of art and the call to being
- Levinas: art and the transcendence of solitude
- Endings: ethics, enigma, and address in The marble faun
- Riven: Badiou's ethical subject and the event of art as trauma.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438431956
- 1438431953
- 9781441668431
- 1441668438
- OCLC:
- 657316956
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