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"Nobody owing nobody nothing" : = Reading Flannery O'Connor anew through the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Nobody owing nobody nothing" :/
Reminder of title:	Reading Flannery O'Connor anew through the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas.
Author:	Moccia, Peter J.
Description:	1 online resource (181 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08(E), Section: A.
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781369661880

"Nobody owing nobody nothing" : = Reading Flannery O'Connor anew through the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas.
Moccia, Peter J.

"Nobody owing nobody nothing" :Reading Flannery O'Connor anew through the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas. - 1 online resource (181 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (D.Litt.)--Drew University, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

Emmanuel Levinas famously claimed ethics as the first philosophy, arguing that all metaphysical and epistemological claims should be built upon an understanding of an individual's nonreciprocal responsibility to the other. This dissertation argues that Levinas's ethics offers a framework and language through which to read anew the fiction of Flannery O'Connor. Like Levinas, O'Connor's oeuvre insists upon the individual's nonreciprocal responsibility to the other. Through an explanation and exploration of some of Levinas's most important concepts---namely the face-to-face encounter with the other, nonreciprocal responsibility, alienation, disruption, trauma, and sameness versus otherness---this dissertation reveals how we can understand in new and significant ways the moral fabric and anthropological underpinnings of O'Connor's fiction.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369661880Subjects--Topical Terms:

685398
American literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

"Nobody owing nobody nothing" : = Reading Flannery O'Connor anew through the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas.
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