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- catalog abstract "Relations between literature and ethics are currently the subject of much discussion amongst critics and philosophers alike. Dominic Rainsford furthers this debate by examining ways in which texts may appear to comment on their authors' own ethical status - problematical disclosures which are significant for any reader who wishes to relate literature to moral issues in extra-literary life. He pursues these matters through readings of Blake, Dickens and Joyce, three authors who find vivid ways of casting doubt on their own moral authority, with the result that the reader's perception of the author becomes closely linked to the social ills exposed within his texts. Combining the desire to find ethical significance in literature with a sceptical mode of reading, informed by post-structuralist theory, the book thus develops a type of radical humanism with applications far beyond the three authors with whom it is immediately concerned.".
- catalog contributor b10311680.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-243) and index.".
- catalog description "Relations between literature and ethics are currently the subject of much discussion amongst critics and philosophers alike. Dominic Rainsford furthers this debate by examining ways in which texts may appear to comment on their authors' own ethical status - problematical disclosures which are significant for any reader who wishes to relate literature to moral issues in extra-literary life. He pursues these matters through readings of Blake, Dickens and Joyce, three authors who find vivid ways of casting doubt on their own moral authority, with the result that the reader's perception of the author becomes closely linked to the social ills exposed within his texts. Combining the desire to find ethical significance in literature with a sceptical mode of reading, informed by post-structuralist theory, the book thus develops a type of radical humanism with applications far beyond the three authors with whom it is immediately concerned.".
- catalog description "pt. I. William Blake. 1. Melancholia and the Search for a System. 2. Images of Authorship/Experiments with Ethics. 3. The Analyst and Agent of Wrongs -- pt. II. Charles Dickens. 4. Innocence and Experience, Again. 5. From Wish-Fulfilment to Ascetic Flatness. 6. Unsolved Problems and Deviant Narrators -- pt. III. James Joyce. 7. The Ineluctable Modality of the Ethical. 8. Meeting the Author/Facing the Book.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 250 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0312165447 (St. Martin's Press : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0333669711 (Macmillan Press : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "820.9/353 20".
- catalog subject "Authors and readers Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Authorship Moral and ethical aspects.".
- catalog subject "Blake, William, 1757-1827 Ethics.".
- catalog subject "Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Ethics.".
- catalog subject "Didactic literature, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Ethics in literature.".
- catalog subject "Joyce, James, 1882-1941 Ethics.".
- catalog subject "Literature and morals.".
- catalog subject "Moral conditions in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR408.D49 R35 1997".
- catalog subject "Reader-response criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. William Blake. 1. Melancholia and the Search for a System. 2. Images of Authorship/Experiments with Ethics. 3. The Analyst and Agent of Wrongs -- pt. II. Charles Dickens. 4. Innocence and Experience, Again. 5. From Wish-Fulfilment to Ascetic Flatness. 6. Unsolved Problems and Deviant Narrators -- pt. III. James Joyce. 7. The Ineluctable Modality of the Ethical. 8. Meeting the Author/Facing the Book.".
- catalog title "Authorship, ethics, and the reader : Blake, Dickens, Joyce / Dominic Rainsford.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".