... this stance within the framework of fiction—not primarily to demonstrate its falsity but to stage an alternate or rival fiction, one that challenges our fundamental assumptions about fiction, ethics, and existence. Copyright © 2021 by University of Oregon 2021 novel ethics ethical turn J. M...

... a reading of The Turn of the Screw , that James's narrative technique and typical configuration of characters create a mechanism very different from the ethically sensitive portrayal of distinctive “perspectives” enshrined as the Jamesian contribution to a liberal Anglo-American aesthetics of the novel...

...Luke Sunderland This article proposes a comparison between the ethics of rebellion developed in recent publications by Julia Kristeva and in the medieval poetry of Bertran de Born. Both Kristeva and Bertran see revolt as a continuous and crucial process of transformation and questioning, of renewal...

...Astrid Lac This study is situated against the broader theoretical premise: when modern Japanese literary criticism made an epochal turn towards theory in the 1980s, all that might fall under the designation of the “biographical”—material, method, or ethic—became the unmourned remains...

..., is each work’s accessibility to the general reader. When judged by its excellent Introduction, R. Clifton Spargo’s Vigilant Memory promises to be, among other things, a lucid and compelling account of the crucial role played by the work of Emmanuel Levinas in the recent “ethical turn” in phi...

... of positivism, the linguistic turn, herme- neutics, and, most recently, the ethical turn. Whatever new reconfigurations of subjectivity we artic- ulate, we will always feel the ebbs and flows of consonance and dissonance between self and world. POSTDECONSTRUCTIVE NECROPHILIA...

...  between his early view about the essential nonsense of “ethical” sen- tences and his tendency (deliberately demonstrative of our own) to turn repeat- edly to figurative language and literary example in his effort to put forth this view. However, Wittgenstein’s use of figurative language in his...

... is a “turning away from,” a rejection of external authority. Grafting Freud and Fou- cault, in The Psychic Life of Power  Butler allegorizes Freud’s “reality” as the state. Yet, just as the psychological contains the political, the political, in turn, represses the ethical, and to praise the melancholic...

... equal renown in poetic circles. Rogers explores both of these figures’ translated impact. In Lorca’s case, his assassination in 1936 turned him into a symbol of fascist brutality and increased the sympa- thy of many intellectuals toward the Republic, whose rocky politics had led some of a con...

... ipsum). And yet in his writing he presses this conception to an extreme where it tends to collapse into its opposite. The whole metaphysical construction is turned inside out by its emergent ethical sense. In Dante’s poetic rendition, pivoting from his addresses to the reader, the significance...

... relation to Africa at the turn of the century? “Pure coincidence” rather abruptly closes the door on a lot of questions, and it’s a pity Ellison didn’t engage with the rich body of work on colonialism (hardly unrelated to ethics) and aesthetics that has so much to con- tribute to readings of texts...

...David Palumbo-Liu Abstract Palumbo-Liu explores the relation of literature and ethics, noting that literature is always about “something else.” Drawing from a number of specific cases, including the Rohingya refugee crisis, he connects material histories with cultural practices that defy simple...

... relation to Africa at the turn of the century? “Pure coincidence” rather abruptly closes the door on a lot of questions, and it’s a pity Ellison didn’t engage with the rich body of work on colonialism (hardly unrelated to ethics) and aesthetics that has so much to con- tribute to readings of texts...

... relation to Africa at the turn of the century? “Pure coincidence” rather abruptly closes the door on a lot of questions, and it’s a pity Ellison didn’t engage with the rich body of work on colonialism (hardly unrelated to ethics) and aesthetics that has so much to con- tribute to readings of texts...

... relation to Africa at the turn of the century? “Pure coincidence” rather abruptly closes the door on a lot of questions, and it’s a pity Ellison didn’t engage with the rich body of work on colonialism (hardly unrelated to ethics) and aesthetics that has so much to con- tribute to readings of texts...

... relation to Africa at the turn of the century? “Pure coincidence” rather abruptly closes the door on a lot of questions, and it’s a pity Ellison didn’t engage with the rich body of work on colonialism (hardly unrelated to ethics) and aesthetics that has so much to con- tribute to readings of texts...

..., Beatrice Hanssen, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, eds. The Turn to Ethics . Culture Work. New York: Routledge, 2000 . Gopnik, Adam. “The Back of the World: The Troubling Genius of G.K. Chesterton.” New Yorker 7 July 2008 : 52 -59. ———. “Prisoner of Narnia: How C.S. Lewis Escaped.” New Yorker 21 Nov...

... implied by this tragic novel. Matalon, like Levinas, ties ethics to optics. While for Levinas the human gaze operates in an a priori realm of reciprocity from which the demand for responsibility is derived8 (“the face of the Other attests to the exis- tence of such a turning towards me, commanding...

... is a particular aspect of architectonics. As such, it provides the basis for a theory both of the creative process and of the ethical I-Other relation. It is through and with Bakhtin’s discussion of the aesthetic act in this early essay, then, that I want to turn to Bishop’s and Szymborska’s ques- tions...

...Claudia Moscovici An Ethics of Dissensus: Postmodernity, Feminism, and the Politics of Radical Democracy. By Ewa Plonowska Ziarek. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 275 p. University of Oregon 2002 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/268...