Genre and Ethics: The Education of an Eighteenth-century Critic"The study addresses the following kinds of questions: Why does genre need ethics? Why does ethics need genre? How is ethics related to and distinguished from ideology as currently used in cultural studies? How does a generic ethical method come to terms with history and historical change? How is a generic ethical method related to religion? Does genre reinforce the concept of the ethical agent? This book will therefore have a broad audience, including scholars whose fields range from the Renaissance to the present, theorists and philosophers whose interests include ethics, cultural studies, and ideologies, and educationists pursuing methods for graduates and undergraduates. The autobiographical introduction serves as the "hook," as our creative writers say, for this audience. Generically, it is experimental, being at once scholarly, pedagogical, and autobiographical."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... birth of Savage in isolation apart from the man and his life as a whole ... poet . Moreover , the use of first - person narration led Whitehead to resort to ... the poet as a social being : Whitehead was content at this time to present ...
... birth of Savage in isolation apart from the man and his life as a whole ... poet . Moreover , the use of first - person narration led Whitehead to resort to ... the poet as a social being : Whitehead was content at this time to present ...
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... birth by way of a discreet midwife who kept the secret from everyone except ... poet , Brendry with the help of Lady Macclesfield , arranges for Savage to ... literary merit and understanding of the arts . But the intellectual meritocracy ...
... birth by way of a discreet midwife who kept the secret from everyone except ... poet , Brendry with the help of Lady Macclesfield , arranges for Savage to ... literary merit and understanding of the arts . But the intellectual meritocracy ...
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... the volume and page number in parentheses . 6. For a similar reading , see , for example , Moseley , Poetic Birth , 164–66 . 7. Pratt , " Short Story , " 180 . 8. Cohen , " Innovation and Variation . " 9. 268 GENRE AND ETHICS.
... the volume and page number in parentheses . 6. For a similar reading , see , for example , Moseley , Poetic Birth , 164–66 . 7. Pratt , " Short Story , " 180 . 8. Cohen , " Innovation and Variation . " 9. 268 GENRE AND ETHICS.
Contents
Preface | 9 |
How Genre Criticism Leads to Ethics | 49 |
Textual Ideology in Aphra Behns Oroonoko | 70 |
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