Literature and Ethics: Essays Presented to A.E. Malloch

by David A. Williams, Gary Wihl, Archibald Edward Malloch, et al.

Part I examines literary conventions as forms of ethical indecision in studies of Empson, Hamlet, and Elizabethan portraiture. Part II defines the "ethics of the unsaid" as an act of resistance and judgment in the work of Austen, Irigaray, and Chaucer. Part III considers discursive "networks," formally in Boethius, technologically in Joyce, and academically in the policy of modern universities on tenure. This book includes essays by Elaine Bandor,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773506624
• ISBN13: 9780773506626
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 184 Pages