Joss Whedon as Shakespearean Moralist : Narrative Ethics of the Bard and the Buffyverse

Rabb, J. Douglas/ Richardson, J. Michael

McFarland & Co Inc（2014/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786474400
• DDC分類 791.43092

Full Description

Drawing on the works of Shakespeare and American screenwriter Joss Whedon, this study in narrative ethics contends that Whedon is the Shakespeare of our time. The Bard wrote before the influence of the modern moral philosophers, while Whedon is writing in the postmodern period. It is argued that Whedon's work is more in harmony with the early modern values of Shakespeare than with modern ethics, which trace their origin to 17th and 18th century moral philosophy. This study includes a detailed discussion of representative works of Shakespeare and Whedon, showing how they can and should be read as forms of narrative ethics.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Kim Fedderson

Introduction

One—Joss Whedon, the Shakespeare for Our Time

Two—Shakespeare's Brain and Whedon's Brains: Cognitive Theory in Narrative and Ethics

Three—Joss Whedon's "Big Brain": The Espenson Authorship Controversy

Four—Shakespeare and Popular Culture: Uses and Echos of the Bard in the Whedonverses and Ours as Well

Five—Persons, Personation and Character Development: The Transformative Nature of Narrative

Six—The Moral Imagination in Shakespeare: ­Pre-Modern and Early Modern Ethics

Seven—The Moral Imagination in Whedon: ­Post-Modern and ­Post-Christian Love Ethics

Eight—Reason and Rules in Ethics: The Parfit Pathology

Conclusion: Narrative Ethics in Action

Works Cited

Index