Ethical Issues in Twentieth Century French Fiction

Killing the Other

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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Beskrivning

This work examines ethical problems raised by a number of key 20th century theoretical and fictional texts by authors such as Levinas, Sartre, Beauvoir, Yourcenar, Duras and Genet. It argues that even texts which apparently espouse ethical positions based on respect for and responsibility towards others frequently depict conflict as an insurmountable aspect of human relations. This is reflected at an aesthetic level, as these texts both describe the struggle for supremacy and replicate it in their relation to their readers.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-12-08
Mått:140 x 216 x 24 mm
Vikt:462 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:228
Upplaga:2000
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9780333733714

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COLIN DAVIS is Reader in French Literature at Oxford University, and Fellow and Tutor in French at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He has published books on Michel Tournier, Elie Wiesel and Emmanuel Levinas, and articles on modern French fiction and thought.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements Introduction: Ethical Criticism Otherness, Altercide Hermeneutic and Ethical Encounters: Gadamar and Levinas Ethics, Fiction, and the Death of the Other: Sartre and Kant Camus, Encounters, Reading Didacticism and the Ethics of Failure: Beauvoir Humanism and its Others: Sartre, Heidegger, Yourcenar Ethical Indifference: Duras Readers, Others: Genet Conclusions: Tarrying with the Negative Bibliography Index