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UNINA9910454835103321 |
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Autore |
Larson Jil |
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Titolo |
Ethics and narrative in the English novel, 1880-1914 / / Jil Larson [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001 |
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1-107-12205-8 |
0-521-12167-1 |
0-511-48314-7 |
0-511-15371-6 |
1-280-17782-9 |
0-511-11912-7 |
0-511-04715-0 |
0-511-30353-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 176 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Ethics in literature |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Didactic fiction, English - History and criticism |
Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 19th century |
Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-172) and index. |
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Ethics and the turn to narrative -- Victorian history and ethics: anxiety about agency at the fin-de-siècle -- Emotion, gender, and ethics in fiction by Thomas Hardy and the New Woman writers -- When hope unblooms: chance and moral luck in A Laodicean, The mayor of Castorbridge, and Tess -- Oscar Wilde and Henry James: aestheticizing ethics -- Promises, lies, and ethical agency in Joseph Conrad's Under western eyes. |
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Drawing on interdisciplinary work in the field of ethics and literature by a diverse range of thinkers, including Martha Nussbaum, Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricoeur, Jil Larson offers new readings of late Victorian |
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and turn-of-the-century British fiction, she shows how ethical concepts can transform our understanding of narratives, just as narratives make possible a valuable, contextualised moral deliberation. Focusing on novels by Thomas Hardy, Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James, Larson explores the conjunction of ethics and fin-de-siècle history and culture through a consideration of what narratives from this period tell us about emotion, reason, and gender, aestheticism, and such speech acts as promising and lying. This book will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth century and modernism, and all interested in the conjunction between narrative, ethics and literary theory. |
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UNINA9910255328303321 |
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Autore |
Dabashi Hamid |
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Iran : The Rebirth of a Nation / / by Hamid Dabashi |
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New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
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[1st ed. 2016.] |
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1 online resource (XIII, 345 p. 14 illus., 13 illus. in color.) |
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International relations |
Middle East - Politics and government |
Politics and war |
Diplomacy |
Globalization |
Political science |
International Relations |
Middle Eastern Politics |
Military and Defence Studies |
Political Science |
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Introduction: The Rebirth of a Nation -- Chapter 1 Persian Empire? -- Chapter 2 A Civil Rights Movement -- Chapter 3 A Metamorphic Movement -- Chapter 4 An Aesthetic Reason -- Chapter 5 Shi-ism at Large -- Chapter 6 Invisible Signs -- Chapter 7 A Transnational Public Sphere -- Chapter 8 Cosmopolitan Worldliness -- Chapter 9 Fragmented Signs -- Chapter 10 The End of the West -- Chapter 11 Damnatio Memoriae -- Chapter 12 Mythmaker, Mythmaker, Make Me a Myth -- Conclusion: What Time Is It?. |
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In this unprecedented book, Hamid Dabashi provides a provocative account of Iran in its current resurrection as a mighty regional power. Through a careful study of contemporary Iranian history in its political, literary, and artistic dimensions, Dabashi decouples the idea of Iran from its colonial linkage to the cliché notion of “the nation-state,” and then demonstrates how an “aesthetic intuition of transcendence” has enabled it to be re-conceived as a powerful nation. This rebirth has allowed for repressed political and cultural forces to surface, redefining the nation’s future beyond its fictive postcolonial borders and autonomous from the state apparatus that wishes but fails to rule it. Iran’s sovereignty, Dabashi argues, is inaugurated through an active and open-ended self-awareness of the nation’s history and recent political and aesthetic instantiations, as it has been sustained by successive waves of revolutionary prose, poetry, and visual and performing arts performed categorically against the censorial will of the state. |
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