On the turn [[electronic resource] ] : the ethics of fiction in contemporary narrative in English / / edited by Barbara Arizti and Silvia Martinez-Falquina

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463066403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle, UK, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007
• ISBN: 1-4438-1043-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (448 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): AriztiBarbara; Martinez-FalquinaSilvia
• Disciplina: 823.9209
• Soggetti: Ethics in literature; English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; "THANKLESS EARTH, BUT NOT ENTIRELY"; VISCERAL PERTURBATIONS AND HUMAN JUDGEMENT; IAN MCEWAN'S BLACK DOGS (1992) AND THE ETHICS OF A POST-POSTMODERN CRITICAL NEO-HUMANISM; PART II; THE ETHICS OF NARRATIVE FORM IN A.S. BYATT'S BABEL TOWER; THE ETHICS OF ROMANCE; A MOST (UN-)ETHICAL STANCE; TAKING OURSELVES FOR POETRY; PART III; BEYOND CODUCTION, REDRESSING SKINS; "I KNOW NOW THAT THIS IS THE WAY ...THE FINAL METAMORPHOSIS. I MUST DRIVE OUT MY OLD SELF AND LET THE UNIVERSE IN"; SELF-RESPONSIBILITY AND THE ARTICULATION OF IDENTITY AS REFLECTED IN JANETTE TURNER HOSPITAL'S THE LAST MAGICIAN AND OYSTER THE ETHICS AND POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION IN A CLIMATE OF ISLAMOPHOBIA; EQUITY AS ETHICAL PRINCIPLE IN (POST-)COLONIAL LITERATURES; PART IV; THE RELEVANCE OF ORWELLIAN POLITICAL ETHICS TODAY; SERIOUSLY FUNNY AND YET NO LAUGHING MATTER; FASCISM AND NEUROSIS IN SPAIN; HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS, IMAGES, AND ETHICAL SUMMONS IN E.L. DOCTOROW'S THE MARCH; PART V; SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL? VISIONARY WRITING AND ETHICAL UNREADABILITY IN FLANNERY O'CONNOR'S TALES; "HOW CAN YOU SAY THEY'RE LIKE YOU AND ME?"THE ETHICS OF THE ADJOINING; NEW VOCABULARY OF ATTENTION; THE DANGERS AND ADVANTAGES OF THE RETURN TO ETHICS IN LITERARY CRITICISM; FINDING WHAT YOU WANT IN PAUL AUSTER'S CITY OF GLASS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
• Sommario/riassunto: On the Turn: The Ethics of Fiction in Contemporary Narrative in English is an attempt to listen to the various voices that participate in the current dialogue on the relationship between fiction and ethics. The editors' introduction investigates the current state of affairs on the return to ethics in critical and literary consideration, and it opens up the way for the variety of approaches that follows. Participants include internationally recognized scholars like Andrew Gibson, Patricia Wau...