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1 y separately published work icon Bureau of Missing Persons : Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers Roger J. Porter , Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2011 Z1878464 2011 multi chapter work criticism Includes a section '"Love Is No Detective": Germaine Greer's Guilty Hunt'.
1 1 y separately published work icon The Self in Moral Space : Life Narrative and the Good David Parker , Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2007 Z1378660 2007 selected work criticism All of us take our moral bearings from a conception of the good, or a range of goods, that we consider most important. We are in this sense selves in moral space. Building on the work of the philosopher Charles Taylor, among others, David Parker examines a range of classic and contemporary autobiographies - including those of St. Augustine, William Wordsworth, Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Gosse, Roland Barthes, Seamus Heaney, and J. M. Coetzee - to reveal a whole domain of life narrative that has been previously ignored, one that enables a new approach to the question of what constitutes a 'good' life narrative. Moving from an ethics toward an aesthetics of life writing, Parker follows Wittgenstein's view that ethics and aesthetics are one. The Self in Moral Space is distinctive in that its key ethical question is not What is it right for the life writer to do? but the broader question What is it good to be? This question opens up an important debate with the dominant postmodern paradigms that prevail in life writing studies today. In Parker's estimation, such paradigms are incapable of explaining why life writing matters in the contemporary context. Life narrative, he argues, faces readers with the perennial ethical question How should a human being live? We need a new reconstructive paradigm, as offered by this book, in order to gain a fuller understanding of life narrative and its humanistic potential. (From the publisher's webpage at http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4669.)
1 2 y separately published work icon From the Margins of Empire : Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer Louise Yelin , Ithaca London : Cornell University Press , 1998 Z796041 1998 single work criticism
1 7 y separately published work icon The Pattern of Australian Culture A. L. McLeod (editor), Melbourne Ithaca : Oxford University Press Cornell University Press , 1963 Z59141 1963 anthology prose
1 5 y separately published work icon The Commonwealth Pen : An Introduction to the Literature of the British Commonwealth A. L. McLeod (editor), Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1961 Z59246 1961 anthology criticism
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