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Lieferstatus:	Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Veröffentlichung:	2005
Genre:	Sprache
	amerikanische Erzähler / Amerikanische Literatur / Barthelme / Barthelme, Donald / donald / Erzählung / Ethik / Postmoderne / Prosa
ISBN:	9783825315740
EAN-Code:	9783825315740
Verlag:	Universitätsvlg. Winter
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Serie:	#117 - American Studies / A Monograph Series
Dimensionen:	H 210 mm / B 135 mm / D 17 mm
Gewicht:	402 gr
Seiten:	242
Zus. Info:	GB
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Inhalt:

Postmodern texts have generally been associated with a radical challenge of established conventions and with an "anything goes" mentality, which seems to exclude serious ethical discussion. While the postmodern texts of the American novel and short-story writers Donald Barthelme and William Gass indeed challenge traditional ethical rules, they are nonetheless deeply concerned with moral questions. Using contemporary ethics as its theoretical framework, the study shows that the fiction of Barthelme and Gass not only makes readers aware of the complexity of ethical issues but also argues that the premise for good ethical behavior is to have the right - postmodern - attitude: to be open-minded, flexible, and able to deal with the ambiguities of life. Retrospectively, these findings can also be applied to other postmodern writers to reveal the hidden ethical dimensions of their fictions.