Fiction as Restriction: Self-Binding in New Ethical Theories of the Novel

Hale, Dorothy J.

doi:10.1353/nar.2007.0010

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“…This agent is the social Other that is produced by two related readerly acts: the act of self-subordination that enables the apprehension of alterity; and a prior act that makes self-subordination itself possible-the will to believe in the possibility of alterity. 4 It is this possibility of alterity that gives birth to the ethical reader. Once presented with the opportunity, it is the reader's task to engage in the ontological assemblage offered by the narrative and to give in to the external forces coming from the Other.…”

Section: Knowing Your Own Other: Willy Dunne's Alterity In a Long Long Waymentioning

confidence: 99%

Uncovering the Self: Identity and Otherness in Irish Fiction (Barry, Beckett and Banville)

Paraschiv¹

2021

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"Fiction seems to be bound to the discovery of the self and the other. By engaging in ethical readings, literature can become a fruitful space of interaction in which the reader and text can communicate in order to make an acquaintance with otherness. In this regard, the present paper consists of several analyses on Irish fiction that propose explorations into the quest of self-discovery. As it stands, self-identity is iterated in terms of knowing both the self and the other and therefore discovering alterity. Through the works of Barry, Beckett and Banville, we intend to demonstrate various approaches towards self-identity and analyse how they came into fruition."

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Section: Knowing Your Own Other: Willy Dunne's Alterity In a Long Long Waymentioning

confidence: 99%

Uncovering the Self: Identity and Otherness in Irish Fiction (Barry, Beckett and Banville)

Paraschiv¹

2021

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“…In contrast to scholars like Keith Oatley, I think that there is a dual process involved in the sharing of char- 48 See Breithaupt 2009. However, Keen as well as Hale 2007 andNussbaum 1998 are wary of a kind of empathy that involves projections of one's own attitudes and does not appreciate the alterity of others.…”

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Writing Emotions

2017

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There is no overall tendency with regard to the number of occurrences describing bodily expressions of emotions -that there are more blushes than tears in The Sentimental Journey, in contrast to the situation in Pamela, might well be due to the particularities of the story in the latter: the incarcerated Pamela, who is in danger of being raped by Mr. B., has more reason to tremble and weep than the characters of The Sentimental Journey and The Man of Feeling. 26 In spite of this, the word count seems to indicate two tendencies: comparing the earlier with the latter novels, there is a decline in the number of times emotions are explicitly named (as the numbers concerning the derivations of the terms 'Anger' and 'Sadness' indicate). In contrast, there is a significant rise in frequency of the terms 'emotion' and 'feeling', which do not refer to a particular state; instead, they are open to readers' inferences. A rather typical example of such a use of the term 'emotion' can be found when Yorick commiserates with the weeping Maria:I sat down close by her; and Maria let me wipe [her tears] away as they fell, with my handkerchief. -I then steep'd it in my own, -and then in hers, -and then in mine, -and 26 These are, however, just preliminary observations, which would have to be checked and analysed more thoroughly. 27 Ibid.: 138. This example also shows that a mere word count can only provide a very tentative impression of the expression of emotions. The "tears" are referred to six times, but the word 'tears' is not explicitly mentioned in this quote. Since the novel encompasses roughly 40.000 words, the counting of these six times would raise the word count from 2,2 to 3,7. A similar use of emotion can be found in Sterne 1967: 83.

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“…Moreover, while theories of the ethical effects of reading literature, especially narrative fiction, abound (cf. Hale 2007), several scholars are critical of what they perceive as facile linkages between literary reading and ethical behavior (Keen 2010;Serpell 2014). In short, there is a need for a more fundamental theoretical discussion of the relations between literature, literary ethics, and education for sustainability (ES).…”

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Sustainable Literary Competence: Connecting Literature Education to Education for Sustainability

Myren-Svelstad

2020

Humanities

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Ecocritical scholarship has always had pedagogical ambitions. It is commonly assumed that education based on ecocritical readings of literature will change the attitudes and actions of pupils and students and thus contribute to forming environmentally aware and sustainable citizens. However, this article proposes an alternative view on the interaction between sustainability and literature education. Based on a critical discussion of “ecocritical orthodoxy,” this meta-theoretical study uses affect theory in conjunction with Rita Felski’s proposal for postcritical reading to argue that literature education needs to take the polysemy of literary texts and the unpredictability of readers’ encounters with such texts into account. By linking this to a specified set of sustainability competences and a dialogic concept of literary competence, the aim of the main discussion is to highlight the many potentially fertile overlaps between literature education and the competences needed in a sustainable citizen. Here, Timothy Clark’s thoughts on the Anthropocene as threshold concept, and Timothy Clark’s views on irony are important parts of the theoretical framework. Moreover, such a framework for sustainable literary competence could help to argue for the value of literature education and genuine literary competence.

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Fiction as Restriction: Self-Binding in New Ethical Theories of the Novel

Cited by 32 publications

References 36 publications

Uncovering the Self: Identity and Otherness in Irish Fiction (Barry, Beckett and Banville)

Uncovering the Self: Identity and Otherness in Irish Fiction (Barry, Beckett and Banville)

Writing Emotions

Sustainable Literary Competence: Connecting Literature Education to Education for Sustainability

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