a reader in ethics, culture, and literary theory /
edited by Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack
Charlottesville :
University Press of Virginia,
2001
xiv, 296 pages ;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface: reading literature and the ethics of criticism / Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack -- A humanistic ethics of reading / Daniel R. Schwarz -- Why ethical criticism can never by simple / Wayne C. Booth -- Lyrical ethics and literary experience / Charles Altieri -- Exactly and responsibly: a defense of ethical criticism / Martha c. Nussbaum -- Who has the right to feel? The ethics of literary empathy /Kathleen Lundeen -- Sethe's choice: Beloved and the ethics of reading / James Phelan -- Moral repair and its limits / Margaret Urban Walker -- Ethics before politics: J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace / James Meffan and Kim L. Worthington -- The list is life: Schindler's List as ethical construct / Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack -- Poets of testimony: : C.K. Williams and Jacqueline Osherow as proxy witnesses of the Shoah / Susan Gubar -- Forget the phallic symbolism, consider the snake: biocentrism and language in Maraget Atwood's "Snake Poems" / Ian Marshall -- Making, taking, and faking lives: ethical problems in collaborative life writing / G. Thomas Couser -- The scandal of human countenance: Witold Gobrowicz and Bruno Schulz in exile from the country of forms / Adam Zachary Newton -- Henry James, moral philosophers, moralism / Cora Diamond -- How to be "in tune with the right" in the Golden Bowl / J. Hillis Miller
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Mapping the ethical turn.
Criticism-- Moral and ethical aspects
Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism