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The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction by Booth, Wayne C. C. , paperback
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- 1989
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- Literary Criticism, Philosophy
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- Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General, Semiotics & Theory
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In The Company We Keep , Wayne C. Booth argues for the relocation of ethics to the center of our engagement with literature. But the questions he asks are not confined to morality. Returning ethics to its root sense, Booth proposes that the ethical critic will be interested in any effect on the ethos, the total character or quality of tellers and listeners. Ethical criticism will risk talking about the quality of this particular encounter with this particular work. Yet it will give up the old hope for definitive judgments of "good" work and "bad." Rather it will be a conversation about many kinds of personal and social goods that fictions can serve or destroy. While not ignoring the consequences for conduct of engaging with powerful stories, it will attend to that more immediate topic, What happens to us as we read ? Who am I, during the hours of reading or listening ? What is the quality of the life I lead in the company of these would-be friends? Through a wide variety of periods and genres and scores of particular works, Booth pursues various metaphors for such engagements: "friendship with books," "the exchange of gifts," "the colonizing of worlds," "the constitution of commonwealths." He concludes with extended explorations of the ethical powers and potential dangers of works by Rabelais, D. H. Lawrence, Jane Austen, and Mark Twain.
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University of California Press
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0520062108
ISBN-13
9780520062108
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Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year
1989
Type
Textbook
Genre
Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Number of Pages
580 Pages
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Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
28.9 Oz
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Pn98.M67b66 1988
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Company We Keep : an Ethics of Fiction
Table of Content
Preface PART I RELOCATING ETHICAL CRITICISM I Introduction: Etbical Criticism, a Banned Discipline? 2 Why Ethical Criticism Fell on Hard Times 3 The Peculiar "Logic" of Evaluative Criticism 4 The Threat of Subjectivism and the Ethics of Craft 5 Who Is Responsible in Ethical Criticism, and for What? PART II THE MAKING OF FRIENDS AND COMMONWEALTHS: CRITICISM AS ETHICAL CULTURE Introduction: The Turn to Self-Culture 6 Implied Authors as Friends and Pretenders 7 Appraising Some Friends 8 Consequences for Character: The Faking and Making of the "Self" 9 Appraising Character: Desire against Desire IO Figures That "Figure" the Mind: Images and Metaphors as Constitutive Stories II Metaphoric Worlds: Myths, Their Creators and Critics PART III DOCTRINAL CRITICISM AND THE REDEMPTIONS OF CODUCTION Introduction 12 Rabelais and the Challenge of Feminist Criticism 13 Doctrinal Questions in Jane Austen, D. H. Lawrence, and Mark Twain Epilogue: The Ethics of Reading Appendix: An Anthology of Ethical Gifts, Thank-you Notes, and Warnings Bibliography of Ethical Criticism Index of Subjects Index of Names and Tides
Copyright Date
1989
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College Audience
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87-024610
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