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| Title: | Honor Bright
: Honor in Western Literature |
| Author: | George F Jones |
| ISBN: | 192949002X : 9781929490028 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 135x210mm |
| Pages: | 214 |
| Weight: | .401 Kg. |
| Published: | Frederic C Beil - September 2002 |
| List Price: | 16.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general: Ethics & moral philosophy |
Beginning with Alfred North Whitehead's premise that it is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression, Jones describes the Germanic code of honour and chronologically traces the gradual development of the concept of honour in the West. The author explores the Christian code of honour -- "or rather code of ethics, since honour as originally understood was incompatible with Christian humility". Then he examines the theories of the Greeks and Romans. The honour code of the age of chivalry -- one of the most romanticised in all of Western literature -- is juxtaposed to the Christian Stoic values of the period. Jones also captures the eighteenth-century concept of honour, and, lastly, how all these codes appeared in the literature of the nineteenth century, by which time the concept of honour had changed. Subjects included in the work are shame culture, guilt culture, the courtly romances, honour dramas, woman's honour, the ridicule of false honour, Southern honour, military and national honour, the field of honour, deviant honour codes, and honour today. Jones reappraises the whole concept of honour, with the aim of restoring our belief that honour is one of our deepest virtues.
