Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Beyond of Language

by Robert Hughes

This book explores the relationship between literature and ethics, showing how literature and art work to open up a part of ethics that resists traditional philosophy. Focusing on three American Romantic texts--Wieland, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and The Marble Faun--Robert Hughes demonstrates how each dramatizes the ethical, psychological, and existential imperative to put the experience of our own traumatic limits (death, mortality, and being)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438431937
• ISBN13: 9781438431932
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.8"