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French literature - 17th century - History and criticism - Congresses --- French literature - 18th century - History and criticism - Congresses --- Ethics in literature - Congresses --- French literature --- Ethics in literature

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While Plato recommended expelling poets from the ideal society, W. H. Auden famously declared that poetry makes nothing happen. The 19 contributions to the present book avoid such polarized views and, responding in different ways to the “ethical turn” in narrative theory, explore the varied ways in which narratives encourage readers to ponder matters of right and wrong. All work from the premise that the analysis of narrative ethics needs to be linked to a sensitivity to esthetic (narrative) form. The ethical issues are accordingly located on different levels. Some are clearly presented as thematic concerns within the text(s) considered, while others emerge through (or are generated by) the presentation of character and event by means of particular narrative techniques. The objects of analysis include such well-known or canonical texts as Biblical Old Testament stories, Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn , J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings , Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita , Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones , Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian and Matthew Lewis’s The Monk . Others concentrate on less-well-known texts written in languages other than English. There are also contributions that investigate theoretical issues in relation to a range of different examples.

Ethics in literature --- Literature and morals --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Fiction --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Ethics in literature - Congresses --- Literature and morals - Congresses --- Narration (Rhetoric) - Moral and ethical aspects - Congresses --- Fiction - Moral and ethical aspects - Congresses --- Ethics in literature. --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Philosophy

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Las contribuciones de este libro resaltan la dimensión ética, en cuanto parte integrante de contextos culturales concretos, en escritos literarios que tematizan acontecimientos centrales del siglo XX. El volumen abre así un debate sobre el tema "Ética y literatura" a través de estudios de textos concretos. La hipótesis principal es que los dilemas morales y los problemas éticos revelan la condición de la literatura en cuanto campo de experimentación imaginario de posibles actuaciones.

Dilemma in literature --- Ethics in literature --- Responsibility in literature --- War in literature --- Spanish literature --- Dilema en la literatura --- Ética en la literatura --- Responsabilidad en la literatura. --- Guerra en la literatura. --- Literatura española --- Responsibility as a theme in literature --- Themes, motives --- History and criticism --- Temas, motivos --- Historia y crítica --- 1900-1999 --- Ethics in literature - Congresses --- Responsibility in literature - Congresses --- Spanish literature - 20th century - Themes, motives - Congresses --- Spanish literature - 20th century - History and criticism - Congresses