Interlocutors, Nonhuman Actors, and the Ethics of Literary Signification

Interlocutors, Nonhuman Actors, and the Ethics of Literary Signification

Associating autonomy with art has long been viewed with suspicion, but autonomous signifying agency may be attributed to literary discourse without lapsing into decontextualized aestheticism or neoliberal conceptions of subjectivity. Through literary practices that “move” readers...

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Main Author: Donald R. Wehrs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-05-01
Series:Humanities
Subjects:
ethics
literary theory, autonomous signification
literary singularity
Homer
Genesis
interlocutor
nonhuman actor
Felski
Latour
Levinas
evolutionary studies
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/8/2/108

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