Damaged Lives: Southern & Caribbean Narrative from Faulkner to NaipaulDrawing on the theories of philosophers of ethics including Hannah Arendt and Alasdair MacIntyre, Damaged Lives: Southern and Caribbean Narrative from Faulkner to Naipaul studies how moral skepticism harms ordinary human beings. In response to an indecisive and uncommitted culture, many writers from the American South and the Caribbean have sought unambiguous sources of order and belief. Damaged Lives shows how a yearning for conviction pervades the writing of William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Agee, Flannery O'Connor, Mary Hood, and V. S. Naipaul. This book will be useful in courses on modern American and Caribbean literature as well as in courses on ethics, American studies, and cultural studies. |
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... tale . Faye Parry Rios ' story of crisis and recovery is not merely the story of one individual ; it is representative of a crisis within contemporary American culture as Redemption of Ordinary Delight: Mary Hood's Familiar Heat.
... tale . Faye Parry Rios ' story of crisis and recovery is not merely the story of one individual ; it is representative of a crisis within contemporary American culture as Redemption of Ordinary Delight: Mary Hood's Familiar Heat.
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... Familiar Heat with the genre of allegory in which the surface events of the narrative point to or embody moral qualities . In es- sence , the novel is an ambitious attempt to respond to the compromised ethi- cal milieu in which we all ...
... Familiar Heat with the genre of allegory in which the surface events of the narrative point to or embody moral qualities . In es- sence , the novel is an ambitious attempt to respond to the compromised ethi- cal milieu in which we all ...
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... Familiar Heat is through the novel's performance of the woman's romance genre . As in the popular genre , Hood presents us with tales of women who define their existence in relation to men and , more specifically , in relation to the ...
... Familiar Heat is through the novel's performance of the woman's romance genre . As in the popular genre , Hood presents us with tales of women who define their existence in relation to men and , more specifically , in relation to the ...
Contents
Faulkner Canetti and Survival | 11 |
Faulkners If I Forget Thee Jerusalem | 27 |
Faulkners Requiem for the Past | 43 |
Copyright | |
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Agee Agee's American culture Arendt artist authority belief system Bits of Paradise Bodley Head Byron character Charlotte Charlotte's civilization conception concerning contemporary country woman course Crowds cynical damage death destructive dream Elias Canetti Enigma Enigma of Arrival ethical evil existence fact faith Familiar Heat father Faye Faye's fear fiction figure finds Fitzgerald's Flannery O'Connor focused force forms Gabriel Josipovici Gatsby Hannah Arendt Harry Haze Haze's Hightower Hood Hood's human imagines individual inherited instinctive jelly-bean Joe Christmas lack Lena Leszek Kolakowski Light in August lives marriage modern moral Naipaul narrative narrator nature novel O'Connor political popular racial radical rebellion rejection relationship religious Requiem response role romantic romantic love seems sense skepticism social society sort South southern belle spiritual stories suggests survival Tall Convict tion traditions of belief understanding values violence virtue Western William Faulkner Wise Blood women writing Zelda Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald