Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-166) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Occasions for Unselfing -- 1. Peace -- 2. Bargain -- 3. Despair -- 4. Pity and Compassion -- 5. Commitment -- 6. Caritas -- Conclusion: The Ethics of Reading (Graham Greene).
Summary:
"This book maps out the lexico-conceptual articulation of Greene's narrative dramatization of ethical situations. This main aim issues from three working hypotheses: in the first place, a reduced set of terms such as peace, despair, pity or commitment have a striking lexical recurrence in Greene's texts. They are considered here as keywords that articulate his discourse at a conceptual level. In the second place, those keywords are invested with narrative potential. They have the capacity to generate narrative situations and developments. In the third place, they articulate a particular narrative pattern. Such lexico-conceptual articulation is shaped mainly as ethical conflict dramatized in narrative form. Drawing on contemporary theories of community and ethics developed by Jean-Luc Nancy, Maurice Blanchot, J. Hillis Miller or Derek Attridge, this book sets out to explore a recurrent narrative pattern in Greene's work, emerging from his personal use of the language of ethics and community"-- Provided by publisher.
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