Introduction: The Turn to Self-culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. PART I
5. RELOCATING ETHICAL CRITICISM 1
6. 1 Introduction: Ethical Criticism, a Banned Discipline? 3
7. 2 Why Ethical Criticism Fell on Hard Times 25
8. 3 The Peculiar "Logic" of Evaluative Criticism 49
9. 4 The Threat of Subjectivism and the Ethics of Craft 81
10. 5 Who Is Responsible in Ethical Criticism, and for What? 125
11. Part II
12. THE MAKING OF FRIENDS AND COMMONWEALTHS Criticism as Ethical Culture 157
13. Introduction: The Turn to Self-culture 159
14. 6 Implied Authors as Friends and Pretenders 169
15. 7 Appraising Some Friends 201
16. 8 Consequences for Character The Faking and Making of the "Self" 227
17. 9 Appraising Character: Desire against Desire 265
18. 10 Figures That "Figure" the Mind: Images and Metaphors as Constitutive Stories 293
19. 11 Metaphoric Worlds: Myths, Their Creators and Critics 325
20. PART III
21. Doctrinal Criticism and the Redemptions of Coduction 375
22. Introduction 377
23. 12 Rabelais and the Challenge of Feminist Criticism 383
24. 13 Doctrinal Questions in Jane Austen, D. H. Lawrence, and Mark Twain 421
25. EPILOGUE The Ethics of Reading 483
26. APPENDIX An Anthology of Ethical Gifts, Thank-you Notes, and Warnings 491
27. Bibliography of Ethical Criticism 505
28. Index of Subjects 535
29. Index of Names and Titles 549