Henry James and the Promise of Fiction by Stuart Burrows

Henry James and the Promise of Fiction by Stuart Burrows

What is the relation between the novel and ethical thought? Henry James and the Promise of Fiction argues that the answer to this question lies not in the content of a work of fiction but in its form. Stuart Burrows explores the relationship between James's ethical vision and his densely metaphorical style, his experiments with narrative time, and his radical reimagining of perspective. Each chapter takes as its starting point a different aspect of an issue at the heart of moral philosophy: the act of promising. Engaging with a range of moral philosophers and literary theorists, most notably David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Ricoeur, and Jacques Derrida, Henry James and the Promise of Fiction argues that James's formal experimentation represents a significant contribution to ethical thought in its own right.

Stuart Burrows is Associate Professor of English at Brown University. His first book was A Familiar Strangeness: American Fiction and the Language of Photography, 1839-1945 (2008). He has won the American Literary Society 1921 Prize in American Literature.

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ISBN 13	9781009419697
ISBN 10	1009419692
Titre	Henry James and the Promise of Fiction
Auteur	Stuart Burrows
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Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	Cambridge University Press
Année de publication	2023-11-09
Nombre de pages	256
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