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Recognition & Ethics in World Literature
Vinc Vanbeverdonker
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Description for Recognition & Ethics in World Literature
Paperback. Series Editor(s): Ringrose, Chris. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DS; HPQ. Dimension: 152 x 213 x 16. Weight in Grams: 364.
This is a critical comparative study of contemporary world literature, focused on the importance of the ethical turn (or return) in literary theory. It considers the shape and development of the ethical engagement of the novels of Amitav Ghosh, Chimamanda Adichie, Caryl Phillips, Kazuo Ishiguro, Zadie Smith, and JM Coetzee, exploring the overlaps and divergences between Levinasian/Derridean and Aristotelian ethics as they are brought to bear on literature. The characters' recognitions and emotional responses in these texts are integral to the unfolding of their ethical concerns, and the ethics thus explored is often marked by the complexity and impurity characteristic ... Read more
This is a critical comparative study of contemporary world literature, focused on the importance of the ethical turn (or return) in literary theory. It considers the shape and development of the ethical engagement of the novels of Amitav Ghosh, Chimamanda Adichie, Caryl Phillips, Kazuo Ishiguro, Zadie Smith, and JM Coetzee, exploring the overlaps and divergences between Levinasian/Derridean and Aristotelian ethics as they are brought to bear on literature. The characters' recognitions and emotional responses in these texts are integral to the unfolding of their ethical concerns, and the ethics thus explored is often marked by the complexity and impurity characteristic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Stuttgart, Germany
ISBN
9783838208473
SKU
V9783838208473
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About Vinc Vanbeverdonker
Janet Wilson is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK, and formerly taught at the University of Otago. She has published widely on New Zealand postcolonial/diaspora writers such as Dan Davin, Fleur Adcock and Katherine Mansfield, and has an interest in globalisation and the short story and cosmopolitan war fictions. She recently coedited Katherine Mansfield: ... Read more
Reviews for Recognition & Ethics in World Literature
"Insightful makes a vital contribution to a theoretical debate that urgently requires to be kept alive in our turbulent times. This is an important book that places the ethical in a critical relation to World Literature."
Premesh Lalu, Professor, Director, Centre for Humanities Research, Faculty of Arts, University of the Western Cape
Premesh Lalu, Professor, Director, Centre for Humanities Research, Faculty of Arts, University of the Western Cape