‘The British Humble Abroad: Humanism in Practice in E.M. Forster’s First Novel (Where Angels Fear to Tread) and Jonathan Coe’s Latest (Expo 58)’
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11 février 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulm.12058
- isbn: 9782367812489
- eisbn: 9782367813981
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Laurent Mellet, « ‘The British Humble Abroad: Humanism in Practice in E.M. Forster’s First Novel (Where Angels Fear to Tread) and Jonathan Coe’s Latest (Expo 58)’ », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.12058
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In both E. M. Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) and Jonathan Coe’s Expo 58 (2013) the humble is a construct that the novelists define and use as a necessary literary and ethical experience. Experiencing one’s humble condition becomes the first stage towards self-consciousness (P. Zaoui) and the main teleological dimension of both modernist and contemporary humanist aesthetics. Literature becomes the place for an ethical (Aristotle), political (P. Ricœur) and humanist (J.-P. Sartre) experience of humbleness.