Literature, Interpretation and Ethics

Literature, Interpretation, and Ethics argues for the centrality of hermeneutics in the context of ongoing debates about the value of literature, and about the role and ethics of literary study.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Forays
Part I: Literature and the Hermeneutics of Trust
1. Does Literature Matter?
2. The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and the Hermeneutics of Trust: Ricoeur, Gadamer, Camus
3. Derrida, Deconstruction and Radical Hermeneutics
Part II: Misreading/Overreading
4. Overreading: Intentions, Mistakes and Lies
5. Reading and Overreading: Camus’s Whales
6. Reading Violence, Violent Reading: Levinas and Hermeneutics
Part III: Reading/Ethics
7. Truth, Ethics, Fiction: Responding to Plato’s Challenge
8. Trauma, Poststructuralism and Ethics
9. Ethics, Stories and Reading
10. Limits of Reading, Overreading and Ethical Reading: Albert Camus’s La Chute
Conclusion: Forays into Good Reading, Bad Reading, Misreading, Overreading and the Hermeneutics of (Guarded) Trust

About the author

Colin Davis is Emeritus Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research is mainly in the field of twentieth-century literature, film and theory.

Summary

Literature, Interpretation, and Ethics argues for the centrality of hermeneutics in the context of ongoing debates about the value of literature, and about the role and ethics of literary study.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Davis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.04.2024
• EAN: 9781032439785
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3243978-5
• No. of pages: 188
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Christianity, Ethics & moral philosophy, Literary studies: general, Ethics and moral philosophy, Literary theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism