Ethical Criticism: Reading After Levinas

by Robert Eaglestone and Professor Robert Eaglestone

What is the relationship between literary criticism and ethics? Does criticism have an ethical task? How can criticism be ethical after literary theory? Ethical Criticism seeks to answer these questions by examining the historical development of the ethics of criticism and the vigorous contemporary backlash against what is known as 'theory'. The book appraises current arguments about the ethics of criticism and, finding them wanting, turns...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748609555
• ISBN13: 9780748609550
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher