English 400: Literature and Ethics, Spring 2019

“Ethics does not solve problems, it structures them,” writes literary critic Geoffrey Harpham. With the help of theorists like Harpham, Iris Murdoch, Richard Rorty, John Guillory, Michael Eskin, Emmanuel Levinas, Michel Foucault, and others, our course has explored the intersection between the literary and the ethical, focusing on a key distinction between ethics—the matrix in …

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