Literature and Ethics : Essays Presented to A.E. Malloch

Part I examines literary conventions as forms of ethical indecision in studies of Empson, Hamlet, and Elizabethan portraiture. Part II defines the "e;ethics of the unsaid"e; as an act of resistance and judgment in the work of Austen, Irigaray, and Chaucer. Part III considers discursive "e;networks,"e; formally in Boethius, technologically in Joyce, and academically in the policy of modern universities on tenure.