Faulkner’s ethics 1st ed.

Author

• Wainwright, Michael

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030688721

Series

Subject(s)

• ETHICS IN LITERATURE
• FAULKNER, WILLIAM, 1897-1962

Notes

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Abstract

This book offers the first comprehensive investigation of ethics in the canon of William Faulkner. As the fundamental framework for its analysis of Faulkner’s fiction, this study draws on The Methods of Ethics, the magnum opus of the utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick. While Faulkner’s Ethics does not claim that Faulkner read Sidgwick’s work, this book traces Faulkner’s moral sensitivity. It argues that Faulkner’s language is a moral medium that captures the ways in which people negotiate the ethical demands that life places on them. Tracing the contours of this evolving medium across six of the author’s major novels, it explores the basic precepts set out in The Methods of Ethics with the application of more recent contributions to moral philosophy, especially those of Jacques Derrida and Derek Parfit.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (x, 319 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Introduction --
1 Authorial Irresponsibility: Hemingway the Battler and Faulkner arn Burning --
2 The Benevolence of Self-Sacrifice: Kenosis in William Faulkner's Light in August --
3 William Faulkner, John Bowlby and Strains of Familial Attachment in Pylon --
4 Egoistic Hedonism: Thomas Sutpen's Dubious Guide to an Ignoble End in Absalom, Absalom! --
5 The Moral Mathematics of Strategic Games in The Unvanquished --
6 The Gifted Presence of Intruder in the Dust --
7 A Fable: Buchwald Disfiguring of Faulkner's Modernisms --
Conclusion: The Levine Shadow.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00879/21	813.5209 Wai F	Online !	Available