Ethical Criticism : : Reading After Levinas / / Robert Eaglestone.

What is the relationship between literary criticism and ethics? Does criticism have an ethical task? How can criticism be ethical after literary theory? Ethical Criticism seeks to answer these questions by examining the historical development of the ethics of criticism and the vigorous contemporary...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©1997
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction: The Uncertain Topography of Criticism
  • 1 Ethics and the End of Criticism?
  • 2 The Dialogue between Perception and Rule: Martha Nussbaum
  • 3 Reading (:) the Ethics of Deconstructive Criticism
  • 4 'Cold Splendor': Levinas's Suspicion of Art
  • 5 What is Hecuba to me?': Language beyond Being and the Task of Criticism
  • Conclusion: Interpretation Continual Interruption
  • Bibliography
  • Index