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Udel-Lambert, Miriam.

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Power in the tongue: Speech and the modernist relocation of ethics.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Power in the tongue: Speech and the modernist relocation of ethics./
作者:	Udel-Lambert, Miriam.
面頁冊數:	233 p.
附註:	Adviser: Ruth R. Wisse.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-04A.
標題:	Jewish Studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3312550
ISBN:	9780549613688

Power in the tongue: Speech and the modernist relocation of ethics.
Udel-Lambert, Miriam.

Power in the tongue: Speech and the modernist relocation of ethics. - 233 p.

Adviser: Ruth R. Wisse.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2008.

This dissertation challenges the well-worn claim that literary modernism eschewed ethics in favor of aesthetics, devoting itself single-mindedly to art for art's sake. Far from ignoring ethical concerns, many modernist authors evacuate them from their traditional spheres of character and event and relocate them into different aspects of the novel, particularly speech and conversational dynamics. The nineteenth-century novel expressed moral judgments of characters' actions, and so conveyed a kind of moral code, through the vicissitudes of plot as it bears on character: rewarding virtue and punishing vice. Modernists famously entertained a "suspicion toward plot" (Peter Brooks, Reading for the Plot), crafting narratives to represent the arbitrariness of a fragmented world in which all guarantees of ultimate justice are void. This suspicion toward plot, however, is hardly tantamount to an abandonment of the ethical work that plot used to perform. Rather, modernist authors relocated ethics into new and perhaps subtler realms, particularly that of speech and conversational dynamics.

ISBN: 9780549613688Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017696
Jewish Studies.

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