Ethics of Alterity, Confrontation and Responsibility in 19th- to 21st-Century British literature
Horizons anglophonesÉditeur : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Lieu d’édition : Montpellier
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 25 mars 2022
Collection : Horizons anglophones
Année d’édition : 2013
Nombre de pages : 257
Présentation
Over the last few decades, in the wake of the ‘Ethical Turn’, contemporary literature has been examined through the prism of the ethics of alterity. Yet, this may not be consistently the case with Victorian and Modernist literature, since relatively few of the authors of those periods have elicited such critical and theoretical scrutiny. The articles in this volume set off to re-read Victorian and Modernist literature in the light of the ethics of alterity and investigate whether the post-Auschwitz, contemporary period breaks away from or favours lines of continuity with the productions of the earlier era. It also strives to address works which do not belong to the canon, focusing alternately on great authors and less known artists, on what has been termed ‘minor’ texts or genres that are less visible than the novel. Approaching literature by examining the relations between ethics and aesthetics, even while adopting an ethical approach, helps the authors in this volume contribute to revising the contemporary, Modernist and Victorian canon in English Literature.
Sommaire
Christine Reynier et Jean-Michel Ganteau
IntroductionFrédéric Regard
On Tears Shed at Brownlow Hill in the Summer of 1866: Alterity, Politics, and Style in Josephine Butler’s WritingsDavid Nowell Smith
‘I hold it towards you’: Alterity in Lyric AddressStephen Ross
Modernist Ethics, Critique, and UtopiaIsabelle Brasme
Towards an Ethics of Singularity: The Shattered Mirror of Identity in Ford Madox Ford’s Parades EndMaría J. López
Writers, Friends and Lovers: Virginia Woolf, G.E. Moore and the Aesthetics of Personal RelationsFlorence Marie-Laverrou
The Relation to the Other in John Cowper Powys’s Wolf Solent (1929)Rainer Emig
Beyond Alterity—Within Alterity: Edith Sitwell’s Self-Reflexive Assessments of ModernismPaula Martín Salván
‘To feel pity even for the planets’: The Aporias of Responsibility in Graham Greene’s The Heart of the MatterJulian Jiménez Hefferman
The Lay Community: Weil, Murdoch, Badiou and the Ethics of Other-CenterednessLaurent Mellet
Moral Questions and Ethical Answers: On some Responsibilities of British Satire in the 20th and 21st CenturiesVincent Dussol
James Kelman’s Confrontational Ethics in You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the FreeEileen Williams-Wanquet
The Ethics of Re-Writing: Jeanette Winterson’s Weight (2005)Michael Kindellan
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