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Telling an honest story: Ethics in Isak Dinesen's "Sorrow Acre" and "The Cardinal's First Tale".
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Telling an honest story: Ethics in Isak Dinesen's "Sorrow Acre" and "The Cardinal's First Tale"./
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West, Candace E.
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138 p.
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Adviser: Lee H. Yearley.
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Dissertation Abstracts International68-12A.
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Literature, Scandinavian and Icelandic. -
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Telling an honest story: Ethics in Isak Dinesen's "Sorrow Acre" and "The Cardinal's First Tale".
West, Candace E.
Telling an honest story: Ethics in Isak Dinesen's "Sorrow Acre" and "The Cardinal's First Tale".
- 138 p.
Adviser: Lee H. Yearley.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2008.
This dissertation brings together the work of Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) and Bernard Williams (1929-2003). Bernard Williams was one of the leading philosophers of the late 20th century, and wrote on a wide variety of topics: agency and responsibility, personal identity, philosophy and literature, classical thought and our relationship to the ancient Greeks, to name a few. Many of those familiar with Dinesen know Out of Africa, the memoir she wrote about her 17 years in Kenya, but towards the end of her time in Africa, she began writing what would become her first published collection of short stories. Dinesen wrote until her death in 1962, becoming one of one of Denmark's most notable writers and a major figure in 20th century fiction. The pairing is not intuitive, but I hope to show that both offer insightful treatments of a network of concerns central to the study of religious ethics.
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Dinesen shares Williams' intuition that the world is not shaped to our interests, much less to our specifically ethical interests. The bulk of the dissertation will comprise my readings of two of her paradigmatic short stories, "Sorrow Acre" and "The Cardinal's First Tale." In Chapters Two and Three, I give an extended analysis of "Sorrow Acre," in which we see characters struggling with some of the larger forces we have seen Williams address. Necessity, responsibility, and moral luck are central, as is the connection between selfhood and storytelling. Like Williams, Dinesen draws attention to the instability of some of the things we consider part of a flourishing life, and the ease with which those things we value can be lost. She also emphasizes the danger of self-deception in these matters. In Chapter Four, I examine the vision of human flourishing that Dinesen presents in "The Cardinal's First Tale." This shows us another aspect of the connection between selfhood and storytelling, but it also raises some important questions about gender, selfhood, and virtue.
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