"Discovered by the process": A methodology for twentieth-century moral fiction
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام ساير پديدآوران
;supervisor: Jay, Paul
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Loyola University Chicago: United States -- Illinois
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
: 2013
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
378 Pages
يادداشت کلی
خط فهرستنویسی و خط اصلی شناسه
Downlode
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
One of the great ironies of the "ethical turn" that literary criticism has taken in the last several decades is that while we as literary critics strive to be ethical or moral, we usually feel embarrassed at actually taking about moral concepts, especially as they are manifested in literary texts. As I am interested in how to discuss moral issues depicted in literary texts without reading them naively and reductively for guidelines to live by or for a social program to implement, my dissertation is designed to model a method of inquiry that approaches literary texts of the twentieth century as "moral fiction," i.e., as explorations of the moral enabled through deployment of form, narrative methods, rhetorical and linguistic devices, and literary techniques. My method is to select texts in which particular thematic moral issues appear especially salient, but then, through a careful rhetorical and narratological analysis of the texts' specific literary techniques, devices and narrative strategies, to focus on how the texts handle the issues aesthetically, structurally, and rhetorically. What I call "moral fiction" is fiction that confronts and engages moral issues, dilemmas, and questions but that resists overt moralizing through the use of distinctive narrative strategies and literary techniques. The most interesting "moral fiction," I argue, integrates aesthetic complexity with moral responsibility and confronts moral complexity with aesthetic responsibility.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Modern literature
موضوع مستند نشده
American literature
موضوع مستند نشده
British and Irish literature
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Language
اصطلاح موضوعی
literature and linguistics
اصطلاح موضوعی
Ethics
اصطلاح موضوعی
Globalization
اصطلاح موضوعی
Morality
اصطلاح موضوعی
Narrative theory
اصطلاح موضوعی
Rhetoric
اصطلاح موضوعی
Rhetoric
اصطلاح موضوعی
Twentieth century
اصطلاح موضوعی
Conrad
اصطلاح موضوعی
Joseph
اصطلاح موضوعی
Smith
اصطلاح موضوعی
Gardner
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