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Marriage and moral perfectionism in Siri Hustvedt and Stanley Cavell

Mahon, Áine

Textual practice, 2015-06, Vol.29 (4), p.631-651 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Marriage and moral perfectionism in Siri Hustvedt and Stanley Cavell
Autor: Mahon, Áine
Assuntos: American studies ; contemporary American ; fiction ; Philosophy and literature ; Siri Hustvedt ; Stanley Cavell
É parte de: Textual practice, 2015-06, Vol.29 (4), p.631-651
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Descrição: Perfectionism is a moral outlook developed in the writings of the contemporary American philosopher, Stanley Cavell. In an idiosyncratic exploration of romantic relationship and modern marriage Cavell attends to perfectionism as he finds it in the film comedies and tragedies of 1930s' and 1940s' Hollywood. Foregrounding the Cavellian emphasis on ideal marriage as re-marriage this article explores relationship and repetition in Siri Hustvedt's The Summer Without Men (2011). I argue that Hustvedt's novel is directly relevant to Cavell's philosophical assessment of the self and its perfectibility within a marital union. Philosopher and novelist part ways, I argue, in the rigidity of Cavell's genre construction.
Editor: Routledge
Idioma: Inglês

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