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Balint, Brendan J.

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The ethics of failure: Literature and theory, 1916--2000.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The ethics of failure: Literature and theory, 1916--2000./
Author:	Balint, Brendan J.
Description:	204 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Pamela L. Caughie.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-12A.
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3295444
ISBN:	9780549397854

The ethics of failure: Literature and theory, 1916--2000.
Balint, Brendan J.

The ethics of failure: Literature and theory, 1916--2000. - 204 p.

Adviser: Pamela L. Caughie.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Loyola University Chicago, 2007.

In this project, I analyze select twentieth-century fiction to describe a literary model for the construction of ethical subjectivity. Scholars have often accepted linguistic and structural difficulties in modern and postmodern fiction as a sign of postwar disillusionment or as a consequence of the crisis of representation---that is, as some kind of failure. I see an opportunity to show that the contestations and failures of autonomous identity found in contemporary literature and, as I discuss in my fourth chapter, computer-generated art, can be reconceived as strategies for producing an ethically responsible subject. I contend that the various difficulties I examine in these texts not only highlight and dismantle now-atrophied and unproductive notions of identity, but provide a performative model of responsibility founded specifically in the literary.

ISBN: 9780549397854Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

The ethics of failure: Literature and theory, 1916--2000.
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520 $a In this project, I analyze select twentieth-century fiction to describe a literary model for the construction of ethical subjectivity. Scholars have often accepted linguistic and structural difficulties in modern and postmodern fiction as a sign of postwar disillusionment or as a consequence of the crisis of representation---that is, as some kind of failure. I see an opportunity to show that the contestations and failures of autonomous identity found in contemporary literature and, as I discuss in my fourth chapter, computer-generated art, can be reconceived as strategies for producing an ethically responsible subject. I contend that the various difficulties I examine in these texts not only highlight and dismantle now-atrophied and unproductive notions of identity, but provide a performative model of responsibility founded specifically in the literary.
520 $a In concert with the theoretical work of Foucault, Derrida, Blanchot, Badiou, and others, my readings of twentieth-century fiction---texts from modernism to the end of the century, including works by Woolf, Beckett, Borges, Amis, and Calvino---show how the various types of failure that they perform in contesting identity, definitions of the literary, and the value of "successful" language, become the very means of constructing relations of responsibility no longer dependent upon the traditional humanist subject. The responsible subject, I conclude, is specifically literary.
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