The company we keep : an ethics of fiction

Berkeley ; London University of California Press., 1988.. Paperback. Good. 24cm. xii, 557p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial. Idioma Inglés. Bibliography: pp. 505-534. - Includes index. Contents pt. I. Relocating ethical criticism. Introduction: Ethical criticism, a banned discipline? ; Why ethical criticism fell on hard times ; The peculiar "logic" of evaluative criticism ; The threat of subjectivism and the ethics of craft ; Who is responsible in ethical criticism, and for what? -- pt. II. The making of friends and commonwealths: criticism as ethical culture. Introduction: The turn to self-culture ; Implied authors as friends and pretenders ; Appraising some friends ; Consequences for character: the faking and making of the "self" ; Appraising character: desire against desire ; Figure that "figure" the mind: images and metaphors as constitutive stories ; Metaphoric worlds: myths, their creators and critics -- pt. III. Doctrinal criticism and the redemptions of coduction. Rabelais and the challenge of feminist criticism ; Doctrinal questions in Jane Austen, D. H. Lawrence, and Mark Twain -- Epilogue: The ethics of reading -- Appendix: An anthology of ethical gifts, thank-you notes, and warnings . ISBN: 0520062035 Criticism, Moral and ethical aspects., Literary ethics