The Ghost of Ethics in the English Modernist Short Story

This paper begins by differentiating le rien from le néant, and situating it in relation to other terms like la chose, quelque chose, and le tout. It then moves on to show that le rien functions in some of E. M. Forster’s lesser-known short stories as an element with substance, an alternative to wha...

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Main Author: Stephen Ross
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2012-06-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/1342