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Ethics, Theory and the Novel

By David Parker

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
052145283X, 9780521452830
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2216872 bytes)
Pages
228\228
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2014-06-01 13:03:46

Description

The virtual suppression of ethical and evaluative discourse by current literary theory can be seen as the triumph of one post-Enlightenment tradition over others vital to a full account of humanity and literary value. In Ethics, Theory and the Novel David Parker shows that current silences about ethics are as damaging as the earlier political silences of Leavisism and New Criticism. He goes on to examine Middlemarch, Anna Karenina, and novels by D.H. Lawrence, exploring the consequences for major literary works of the suppression of ethical traditions.

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