Christine Reynier and Jean-Michel Ganteau (eds), Ethics of Alterity, Confrontation and Responsibility in 19th- to 21st-Century British Literature

Over the past twenty years or so, as the categories of post-modernism, postcolonialism, and gender theory were gradually challenged, literary critics started to re-appraise the relation between literature and moral philosophy, a return to basics as it were. In an attempt to escape generic definitio...

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Autor Principal: Boileau, Nicolas Pierre
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado: E-rea 2015
Acceso en liña:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:Over the past twenty years or so, as the categories of post-modernism, postcolonialism, and gender theory were gradually challenged, literary critics started to re-appraise the relation between literature and moral philosophy, a return to basics as it were. In an attempt to escape generic definitions and questions that seemed to take literature for its main object and end, critics returned to philosophy. The critical debates have again brought forth the question of authority along with its r...