Experiments with Ethics in Contemporary British Fiction: The Lack of a Stable Framework
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Literature and Environmental Ethical Criticism: Sarah Orne Jewett's New England Texts
The interest in ethical literary criticism which re-emerged in the 1990s is of particular relevance to the field of ecologically oriented literary criticism. Motivated by a concern for the environment and by the question of how to live an...
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The interest in ethical literary criticism which re-emerged in the 1990s is of particular relevance to the field of ecologically oriented literary criticism. Motivated by a concern for the environment and by the question of how to live an environmentally sound life, its basic goal can be defined as creating knowledge that promotes an environmental ethical stance that in turn triggers processes of environmentally benign social and cultural transformation. The claim – made by moral philosophers and literary critics such as Charles Taylor, Martha Nussbaum, Richard Rorty and David Parker – that literary texts can be regarded as a specific mode of moral inquiry because of the imaginative range and formal richness of their language bears a high degree of importance for ecologically oriented literary scholarship. It supports the idea that literary texts which address morally relevant aspects of the human-nature relationship are indispensable sources for a more comprehensive understanding of the human moral experience – more comprehensive in the sense of extending the moral universe towards the inclusion of parts of nonhuman nature or to non-human nature as a whole. Following a brief introduction into key issues of current ethical literary criticism and into the field of environmental ethics, this essay explores New England regionalist texts by Sarah Orne Jewett as sites of inquiry into environmentally relevant moral issues. Jewett's texts were part of the emergence of American environmentalism in the second half of the nineteenth century. They contributed to the environmentalist discourse as it developed in particular in the activities and publications of movements such as the conservation, preservation and humane movements. Analysis of the environmental ethical dimension of her texts reveals that the sources of the contemporary philosophical discipline of environmental ethics can be understood as reaching far back into literary history. ; Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer ...
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Katrin Pieper (2006): Musealisierung des Holocaust
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Arno Löffler and Eberhard Späth, eds. (2005): Geschichte der englischen Kurzgeschichte AND Sabine Buchholz (2003): Narrative Innovationen in der modernistischen britischen Short Story
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This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
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The Prisoner’s Body/The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Subjects in Contemporary U.S. Prison Literature
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At the Limits of Representation: Counter-tourism in Jean Amery and W.G. Sebald
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Against All Odds - 'Sam Hall' and 'The Man in Black': From British Social Disparagement to American Defiant Individualism
http://www.asjournal.org/50-2007/sam-hall-and-the-man-in-black/
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From Subterranean to Suburban: The Landscapes of Gay Outlaw Writing
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Experiments with Ethics in Contemporary British Fiction: The Lack of Stable Framework in Ian McEwan's Saturday and Julian Barnes' Arthur and George
This essay challenges the assumption that, as far as British writing at the beginning of the twenty-first century is concerned, experimental writing is synonymous with postmodernist writing. It is argued that two novels by Julian Barnes and Ian...
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This essay challenges the assumption that, as far as British writing at the beginning of the twenty-first century is concerned, experimental writing is synonymous with postmodernist writing. It is argued that two novels by Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan, both published in 2005, achieve indeterminacy as well as instability and evoke the experience o f alterity by using seemingly traditional narrative conventions, thus opening up new ways for the exploration of ethical concerns in contemporary fiction.
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Against All Odds - 'Sam Hall' and 'The Man in Black': From British Social Disparagement to American Defiant Individualism
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From Subterranean to Suburban: The Landscapes of Gay Outlaw Writing
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The Prisoner’s Body/The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Subjects in Contemporary U.S. Prison Literature
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At the Limits of Representation: Counter-tourism in Jean Amery and W.G. Sebald
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