Timothy Findley S Novels Between Ethics And Postmodernism

Author : Dagmar Krause
Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ethics in literature
ISBN : 3826030052

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Timothy Findley's Novels Between Ethics and Postmodernism by Dagmar Krause Pdf

Timothy Findley (1930-2002) is one of the most important contemporary Canadian writers. His novels have been classified as postmodern, exhibiting characteristic features such as parody, historiographic metafiction, and hybrid genres. This classification of Findley as a postmodern writer, however, largely neglects the fact that Findley is deeply committed to the exploration of certain ethical and political themes. Recurring topics in his work are, for instance, fascism, environmental concerns, and the problem of responsibility. Sparked off by the fascinating question of how postmodernism and ethics can be reconciled at all, and inspired by the so-called ethical turn in the literary theory of the 1990s, this study supplies a closer look at Findley's ethics with regard to its postmodern potential. A detailed analysis of five of his novels (The Wars, Famous Last Words, Not Wanted on the Voyage, The Telling of Lies and Headhunter) explores the ethical dimension of Findleys work and its consequences for his categorization as a postmodern writer.

Author : Astrid Erll,Herbert Grabes,Ansgar Nünning
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110206555

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Ethics in Culture by Astrid Erll,Herbert Grabes,Ansgar Nünning Pdf

Alongside the recent cultural turn in the humanities, there has been a noticeable return to ethical considerations. With regard to literature as well as other media, this has rekindled awareness of a tension, antagonism, or even disparity between ethics and aesthetics. This volume of articles takes a more systematic and cross-disciplinary approach to the widely mooted ethical turn in literature and other media than has been pursued so far. It brings together a wide range of critical perspectives from literary studies, media and cultural memory studies, and philosophy, tracing the complex and sometimes conflicting relationship between ethics and aesthetics in theoretical contexts and individual case studies as diverse as colonial architecture, nineteenth-century literary histories, and postmodern writing and art.

Author : Deborah C. Bowen
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780773536890

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Stories of the Middle Space by Deborah C. Bowen Pdf

"Postmodernism's critics often accuse the movement of being dangerously amoral because of its apparent wariness of concepts such as truth, ethics, and justice. Stories of the Middle Space explores the possibility of "postmodernism-with-a-conscience" and examines a variety of British and Canadian postmodern fiction to show how twentieth-century critical theory can be brought into fruitful dialogue with a faith-based perspective." "Highlighting the wide variety of ethical concerns considered by writers such as Timothy Findley, Thomas King, Carol Shields, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, and Salman Rushdie, Deborah Bowen makes the case for a new category of "postmodern realism" and shows how contemporary stories about "the real" and "the good" are constructed. Applying theoretical insights from Emmanuel Levinas and Mikhail Bakhtin, Bowen investigates categories of postmodern realism such as magic realism, parody, and metafiction while laying the groundwork for Christian readings of a medium that is often perceived as largely irreligious." "An illuminating study of well-known contemporary writers, Stories of the Middle Space is a critically nuanced and methodologically innovative work that reads the postmodern from a faith-based perspectives to create new literary insights." "Deborah Bowen addresses the ethical concerns of a wide variety of postmodern fiction from a faith-based perspective that engages with the decentred discourses of post-structuralism. She suggests that a focus on the middle space between language and the world not only provides new insights into the construction of the real and the notion of a "good" story but also resituates the possibility of Christian reading in a largely post-Christian era"--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Andrew Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134638642

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Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel by Andrew Gibson Pdf

In Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel Andrew Gibson sets out to demonstrate that postmodern theory has actually made possible an ethical discourse around fiction. Each chapter elaborates and discusses a particular aspect of Levinas' thought and raises questions for that thought and its bearing on the novel. It also contains detailed analyses of particular texts. Part of the book's originality is its concentration on a range of modernist and postmodern novels which have seldom if ever served as the basis for a larger ethical theory of fiction. Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel discusses among others the writings of Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Jane Austen, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust and Salman Rushdie.

Author : Canan Savkay
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781456789831

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Ethics, Self and the Other by Canan Savkay Pdf

Examining the impact of poststructuralist theories on the writings of four of the most eminent contemporary novelists, this book argues that the postmodern approach to language has given rise to fiction's ongoing exploration of ethics and the relation to the Other. In a globalised world that is marked by cruelty and intolerance, the contemporary novel appears to be preoccupied with ways to explore the reasons for violence and to find alternative ways for reconciliation. This book undertakes an in-depth study of the fiction of four leading contemporary novelists and draws attention to the ideas they share with the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Although Levinas's concept of ethics is mainly based on the responsibility to the other person and therefore appears to be confined to an interpersonal level, it should be noted that Levinas's philosophy emerged from personal suffering during the Nazi regime. Having to witness the cruelty that man can inflict onto others, Levinas developed a philosophy that revolves around the responsibility of the self for the other person. This book undertakes a close text analysis and reveals how the novels in discussion share with Levinas the view that political and social justice has to start with the personal relation to the other.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131548211

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Z. Angl. Am by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122307924

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English and American studies in German by Anonim Pdf

Author : Barbara Gabriel,Suzan Ilcan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0773527028

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Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject by Barbara Gabriel,Suzan Ilcan Pdf

This interdisciplinary study situates the recent interest in ethics within radical post-modern shifts about knowledge and value.

Author : Deborah C. Bowen
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773591035

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Stories of the Middle Space by Deborah C. Bowen Pdf

Highlighting the wide variety of ethical concerns considered by writers such as Timothy Findley, Thomas King, Carol Shields, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, and Salman Rushdie, Deborah Bowen makes the case for a new category of "postmodern realism" and shows how contemporary stories about "the real" and "the good" are constructed. Applying theoretical insights from Emmanuel Levinas and Mikhail Bakhtin, Bowen investigates categories of postmodern realism such as magic realism, parody, and metafiction while laying the groundwork for Christian readings of a medium that is often perceived as largely irreligious. An illuminating study of well-known contemporary writers, Stories of the Middle Space is a critically nuanced and methodologically innovative work that reads the postmodern from a faith-based perspectives to create new literary insights.

Author : Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9042000716

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Powerless Fictions? by Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004502208

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The Guises of Canadian Diversity / Les masques de la diversité canadienne by Anonim Pdf

The essays collected here illustrate aspects of recent research conducted by graduate students in Canadian studies at various European universities. The methodological diversity displayed points to the very essence of the culture the contributors explore - what has been commonly termed the Canadian mosaic or, more recently, the Canadian kaleidoscope (Janice Kulyk-Keefer). In analysing the many facets of this mosaic, the numerous images of this kaleidoscope, the contributors offer fresh and youthful reappraisals of traditional visions of Canadianness.

Author : Robert Lecker,Jack David,Ellen Quigley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Authors, Canadian
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022349414

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Canadian Writers and Their Works by Robert Lecker,Jack David,Ellen Quigley Pdf

Author : A. C. Facundo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438463100

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Oscillations of Literary Theory by A. C. Facundo Pdf

Revises key psychoanalytic concepts that influence interpretive practices in the humanities and formulates a new approach to reading fiction. Oscillations of Literary Theory offers a new psychoanalytic approach to reading literature queerly, one that implicates queer theory without depending on explicit representations of sex or queer identities. By focusing on desire and identifications, A. C. Facundo argues that readers can enjoy the text through a variety of rhythms between two (eroticized) positions: the paranoid imperative and queer reparative. Facundo examines the metaphor of rupture as central to the logic of critique, particularly the project to undo conventional formations of identity and power. To show how readers can rebuild their relational worlds after the rupture, Facundo looks to the themes of the desire for omniscience, the queer pleasure of the text, loss and letting go, and the vanishing points that structure thinking. Analyses of Nabokov’s Lolita, Danielewski’s House of Leaves, Findley’s The Wars, and Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go are included, which model this new approach to reading. A. C. Facundo is an independent scholar, who received a PhD in English from York University in Toronto and continued as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Author : Donna Pennee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000439823

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Moral Metafiction by Donna Pennee Pdf

Examines Findley's novels, from The Last of the Crazy People through The Telling of Lies, for the ways in which their use of metafictive devices pose specifically ethical challenges for readers. Findley's novels dramatize the process of interpretation and interrogation of dominant discourses from the point of view of those subjects either already marginalized by history or who choose to repudiate dominant texts and thus become marginalized. As revisionist texts, these novels tell history from the losers' point of view, and in the process of explicating how dominant discourse is constructed, they create the possibility of other constructions and seek to express counterdiscourses. But they also make clear that such expressions are themselves constructions: their ethical challenge lies in problematizing readers' knowledge of dominant history and in asking readers to choose their constructions carefully.

Author : Marie Vautier
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : America
ISBN : 9780773516694

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New World Myth by Marie Vautier Pdf

In this comparative study of six Canadian novels Marie Vautier examines reworkings of myth in the postcolonial context. While myths are frequently used in literature as transhistorical master narratives, she argues that these novels destabilize the traditional function of myth in their self-conscious reexamination of historical events from a postcolonial perspective. Through detailed readings of François Barcelo's La Tribu, George Bowering's Burning Water, Jacques Godbout's Les Têtes à Papineau, Joy Kogawa's Obasan, Jovette Marchessault's Comme une enfant de la terre, and Rudy Wiebe's The Scorched-Wood People, Vautier situates New World myth within the broader contexts of political history and of classical, biblical, and historical myths.