{"product_id":"the-company-we-keep-9780520062108","title":"The Company We Keep","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArgues for the relocation of ethics to the center of our engagement with literature. Returning ethics to its root sense, this work proposes that the ethical critic will be interested in any effect on the ethos, the total character or quality of tellers and listeners.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART I\u003cbr\u003e RELOCATING ETHICAL CRITICISM\u003cbr\u003e I\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Etbical Criticism, a Banned Discipline?\u003cbr\u003e 2\u003cbr\u003e Why Ethical Criticism Fell on Hard Times\u003cbr\u003e 3\u003cbr\u003e The Peculiar \"Logic\" of Evaluative Criticism\u003cbr\u003e 4\u003cbr\u003e The Threat of Subjectivism and the Ethics of Craft\u003cbr\u003e 5\u003cbr\u003e Who Is Responsible in Ethical Criticism, and for What?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART II\u003cbr\u003e THE MAKING OF FRIENDS AND COMMONWEALTHS: CRITICISM AS\u003cbr\u003e ETHICAL CULTURE\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Turn to Self-Culture\u003cbr\u003e 6\u003cbr\u003e Implied Authors as Friends and Pretenders\u003cbr\u003e 7\u003cbr\u003e Appraising Some Friends\u003cbr\u003e 8\u003cbr\u003e Consequences for Character: The Faking and Making\u003cbr\u003e of the \"Self\"\u003cbr\u003e 9\u003cbr\u003e Appraising Character: Desire against Desire\u003cbr\u003e IO\u003cbr\u003e Figures That \"Figure\" the Mind: Images and Metaphors\u003cbr\u003e as Constitutive Stories\u003cbr\u003e II\u003cbr\u003e Metaphoric Worlds: Myths, Their Creators and Critics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART III\u003cbr\u003e DOCTRINAL CRITICISM AND THE REDEMPTIONS OF CODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 12\u003cbr\u003e Rabelais and the Challenge of Feminist Criticism\u003cbr\u003e 13\u003cbr\u003e Doctrinal Questions in Jane Austen, D. H. Lawrence,\u003cbr\u003e and Mark Twain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Ethics of Reading\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: An Anthology of Ethical Gifts, Thank-you\u003cbr\u003e Notes, and Warnings\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography of Ethical Criticism\u003cbr\u003e Index of Subjects\u003cbr\u003e Index of Names and Tides","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402791461207,"sku":"9780520062108","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-company-we-keep-9780520062108","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}