Ethics, Theory and the Novel
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- Author: David Parker, Australian National University, Canberra
- Date Published: July 2008
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- isbn: 9780521070317
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The virtual suppression of ethical and evaluative discourse by current literary theory can be seen as the triumph of one post-Enlightenment tradition over others vital to a full account of humanity and literary value. In Ethics, Theory and the Novel David Parker shows that current silences about ethics are as damaging as the earlier political silences of Leavisism and New Criticism. He goes on to examine Middlemarch, Anna Karenina, and novels by D.H. Lawrence, exploring the consequences for major literary works of the suppression of ethical traditions.
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"Parker's discussion is intelligent and well-informed." Philosophy and Literature
See more reviews"Ethics, Theory and the Novel is, then, both timely and accomplished; and a measure of its accomplishment is that it brings to this interdisciplinary 'turn' a subtlety of literary analysis that would have pleased even exponents of earlier, more intellectually insular, forms of humanist literary criticism." Philosophy and literature
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- Date Published: July 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521070317
- length: 232 pages
- dimensions: 250 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.36kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. The Ethical Unconscious:
1. Evaluative discourse: the return of the repressed
2. A new turn toward the ethical
3. The judgmental unconscious
4. The libidinal unconscious
5. Dynamic interrelatedness: or, the novel walking away with the nail
Part II. Social Beings and Innocents:
6. 'Bound in Charity': Middlemarch
7. Forgetting and disorientation in Anna Karenina
8. Two ideas of innocence in The white peacock
9. Into the ideological unknown: Women in love
10. Lawrence and Lady Chatterley: the teller and the tale
Part III. Towards a new evaluative Discourse.
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