Textual ethos studies, or Locating ethics / edited by Anna Fahraeus and AnnKatrin Jonsson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fahraeus, Anna.

Jonsson, AnnKatrin.

Series:

Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 26.

Critical studies ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Locating ethics

Textual ethos studies

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is the relationship between texts and ethics? Who decides the ethics of a text, the writer or the reader? What happens to ethics in texts that portray dreams or psychoses? Is violence always inherently unethical? In dealing with others is violence to both them and oneself ever completely avoidable? Textual Ethos Studies does not attempt to provide definitive answers to these questions so much as to be a springboard to the further discussion of ethics in relation to specific texts. The essays illustrate varying perspectives — ranging from the philosophical to the psychoanalytical to the linguistic — that can be used to localize how texts engage or invite an engagement with ethics. Twenty scholars representing Asia, Europe, Israel, North America, and South Africa highlight the complex relationship between cultural context and ethics, and between the ethical and the unethical. Several essays deal with the study of atypical texts that represent different attitudes toward the violent, the disordered, the traumatized, the psychotic, and the sentimental in order to encourage — or provoke — further discussion of the relevance of these types of texts to ethics.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Anna Fahraeus and AnnKatrin Jonsson

INTRODUCTION TEXTUAL ETHOS STUDIES—OR LOCATING ETHICS / ANNA FAHRAEUS

THE NOVEL THE SOCIAL, AND THE EVENT: AN INTERNATIONAL ETHICAL ENCOUNTER / NANCY GLAZENER

EXECRABLE SPEECH: LOUIS-FERDINAND CÉLINE’S BAGATELLES POUR UN MASSACRE / NICHOLAS CHARE

THE GROTESQUE ON FLESHING OUT THE SUBJECT OF ETHICS / SARA COHEN SHABOT

PLAYING BALL WITH GOD: BREAKING THE LAW IN BREAKING THE WAVES / BECKY MCLAUGHLIN

POST-TEXTUAL ETHICS: FOUCAULT’S RHETORICAL WILL / STUART J. MURRAY

SHAKESPEARE’S OTHELLO: JEALOUSY AND HERMENEUTICS / MICHAL PAWEL MARKOWSKI

THE ETHICS OF MODALITY IN PAULINE SMITH’S “THE SISTERS” / MYRTLE HOOPER

TELLING STORIES: ALTERITY AND ETHICS IN JOHN BANVILLE’S THE UNTOUCHABLE AND SHROUD / PIETRA PALAZZOLO

“ALL THIS TRACTATE IS BUT A DREAM”: THE ETHICS OF DREAM NARRATION IN THOMAS NASHE’S THE TERRORS OF THE NIGHT / PER SIVEFORS

READING KRISTEVA AND BEYOND: PSYCHOANALYSIS AS TEXTUAL ETHICS / LINDA BELAU

BODILY FORMATIONS AND READING STRATEGIES IN JOHN DONNE’S METEMPSYCHOSIS / SIOBHÁN COLLINS

CHECKPOINT SYNDROME: VIOLENCE,MADNESS, AND ETHICS IN THE HEBREW LITERATURE OF THE INTIFADA / ADIA MENDELSON-MAOZ

THE USES AND ABUSES OF CHILDREN: FAIRY TALES AND THE PORNOGRAPHIC / VICTORIA BEST

REPRESENTATIONS OF RAPE IN APARTHEID AND POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE / ANNE REEF

NIGHTWOOD AND THE LIMITS OF REPRESENTATION / ANNKATRIN JONSSON

DAVID MAMET’S ALTERED ETHICS: FINDING FORGIVENESS, OR SOMETHING LIKE IT, IN HOUSE OF GAMES, THE SPANISH PRISONER, AND STATE AND MAIN / TODD F. DAVIS and KENNETH WOMACK

“YOUR OTHERNESS IS PERFECT AS MY DEATH”: THE ETHICS AND AESTHETICS OF LI-YOUNG LEE’S POETRY / ZHOU XIAOJING

THE LOOK OF ETHICS: EMMANUEL LEVINAS, LÉO BRONSTEIN, AND THE INTERHUMAN INTRIGUE / CHRIS THOMPSON

A MIND POISED BETWEEN DESIRES: THE ETHOS OF T.S. ELIOT’S POETRY AND CRITICISM / DAVID WATSON

SENTIMENTALITY IN POSTMODERNIST FICTION: FROM ETHICAL PROBLEM TO ETHICAL POSSIBILITY / JAKOB WINNBERG

THE CONTRIBUTORS / Anna Fahraeus and AnnKatrin Jonsson

INDEX / Anna Fahraeus and AnnKatrin Jonsson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0204-4

1-4237-9147-9

OCLC:

714567430

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401202046 DOI