A Time for Ethics: Janet Frame and W. G. Sebald

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Title

A Time for Ethics: Janet Frame and W. G. Sebald

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University of Otago

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'A Time for Ethics: Janet Frame and W. G. Sebald' identifies how literary texts which both respond to a traumatic past and adopt an openness towards the future enact an ethical stance. The recent "ethical turn" in a range of disciplines, among them literary studies, has led to a renewed interest in the ethical dimension of literature. The recent readings suggest, however, that a traditional humanist ethics continues to rely on a metaphysics of presence that forecloses an encounter of the huma...

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Research paper

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2011

Creator

Carter, Josephine

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/592

Related subjects

Time / Ethics / Frame / Sebald / Levinas

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