Narrative, Ethics, and Postmodern Art in Siri Hustvedt s What I Loved

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. I. Theory Supported by History
5. Literature’s Versions of Its Own Transmission of Values 19
6. Being Ethical: Open, Less Open, and Hidden Dissemination of Values in English Literature 35
7. Transcendental Ethics, Vertical Ethics, and Horizontal Ethics 51
8. Agrammaticality, Silence and the Diffusion of Values:The Holiday of Language 73
9. Beyond Virtue and Duty: Literary Ethics as Answerability 87
10. An Ethical Narratology 117
11. What Makes Literature Valuable: Fictions of Meta-Memory and the Ethics of Remembering 131
12. “Unprofitable Excursions”: On the Ethics of Empathy in Modernist Discourses on Art and Literature 153
13. Narrative, Ethics, and Postmodern Art in Siri Hustvedt s What I Loved 171
14. Can Literary Figures Serve as Ethical Models? 195
15. The Ethical Dimension of Cognitive Poetics and “A Mechanism of Sensibility” 217
16. II. History Inspiring Theory
17. Ethics in Stone: The Architecture of the Raj 231
18. The Dissemination of Imperialist Values in Late Victorian Literature and Other Media 255
19. Prominent Values in Nineteenth-Century Histories of English Literature 279
20. Impressionism, Fiction, and the Location of the Ethical 299
21. Ethics and Aesthetics in Modern Literature and Theory: A Paradoxical Alliance? 317
22. Literature and Ethics: Social Critique and Morality in the American War II Novel 337
23. The Nightmare of History, the Value of Art and the Ethics of Love in Julian Barnes s A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters 355
24. Ethics and Aesthetics in British Novels at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century 369
25. Backmatter 393