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David Parker David Parker i(A27297 works by) (a.k.a. David H. Parker; David Heywood Parker)
Born: Established: 5 Aug 1943 Adelaide, South Australia, ; Died: Ceased: 29 Oct 2015
Gender: Male
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1 1 y separately published work icon The Self in Moral Space : Life Narrative and the Good David Parker , Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2007 Z1378660 2007 selected work criticism All of us take our moral bearings from a conception of the good, or a range of goods, that we consider most important. We are in this sense selves in moral space. Building on the work of the philosopher Charles Taylor, among others, David Parker examines a range of classic and contemporary autobiographies - including those of St. Augustine, William Wordsworth, Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Gosse, Roland Barthes, Seamus Heaney, and J. M. Coetzee - to reveal a whole domain of life narrative that has been previously ignored, one that enables a new approach to the question of what constitutes a 'good' life narrative. Moving from an ethics toward an aesthetics of life writing, Parker follows Wittgenstein's view that ethics and aesthetics are one. The Self in Moral Space is distinctive in that its key ethical question is not What is it right for the life writer to do? but the broader question What is it good to be? This question opens up an important debate with the dominant postmodern paradigms that prevail in life writing studies today. In Parker's estimation, such paradigms are incapable of explaining why life writing matters in the contemporary context. Life narrative, he argues, faces readers with the perennial ethical question How should a human being live? We need a new reconstructive paradigm, as offered by this book, in order to gain a fuller understanding of life narrative and its humanistic potential. (From the publisher's webpage at http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4669.)
1 Narratives of Autonomy and Narratives of Relationality in Auto/Biography David Parker , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: a/b: Auto/Biography Studies , Summer/Winter vol. 19 no. 1/2 2004; (p. 137-155)
1 Locating the Self in Moral Space : Globalisation and Autobiography David Parker , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Selves Crossing Cultures : Autobiography and Globalisation 2002; (p. 3-21)
1 Reply to Raimond Gaita David Parker , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Critical Review , no. 41 2001; (p. 66-67)
1 Multiculturalism and Universalism in 'Romulus, My Father' David Parker , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Critical Review , no. 41 2001; (p. 44-53)
1 y separately published work icon Re-Negotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy and Theory Richard Freadman (editor), Jane Adamson (editor), David Parker (editor), Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1998 Z1311996 1998 selected work criticism
1 Imperialist Ideology and the Study of English David Parker , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , September vol. 41 no. 9 1997; (p. 37-39)
1 y separately published work icon Shame and the Modern Self David Parker (editor), Rosamund Dalziell (editor), Iain Wright (editor), Kew : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 1996 Z817650 1996 anthology criticism
1 The Range of Goods We Live By David Parker , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , July-August vol. 40 no. 7-8 1996; (p. 33-38)
1 Literature and Ethics David Parker , 1995 single work prose
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 June 1995; (p. C13)
1 y separately published work icon Ethics, Theory and the Novel David Parker , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1994 Z1353229 1994 single work criticism
1 form y separately published work icon David Parker Reads from His Works at ADFA Library David Parker , 1990 Z1353196 1990 single work film/TV
1 Children's Ward David Parker , 1990 single work short story humour
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 34 no. 3 1990; (p. 47-52) The Mighty World of Eye : Stories, Anti-Stories 1990; (p. 146-160)
1 12 y separately published work icon The Mighty World of Eye : Stories, Anti-Stories David Parker , Brookvale : Simon and Schuster Australia New Endeavour Press , 1990 Z507463 1990 selected work short story criticism humour
1 Arthur Mee's Brief Encyclopaedia of Poststructuralism David Parker , 1990 single work short story humour
— Appears in: The Mighty World of Eye : Stories, Anti-Stories 1990; (p. 183-194)
1 Death of a Conservative David Parker , 1990 single work short story humour
— Appears in: The Mighty World of Eye : Stories, Anti-Stories 1990; (p. 178-181)
1 The Dark Nails of the Present David Parker , 1990 single work short story humour
— Appears in: The Mighty World of Eye : Stories, Anti-Stories 1990; (p. 170-172)
1 Connections David Parker , 1990 single work short story humour
— Appears in: The Mighty World of Eye : Stories, Anti-Stories 1990; (p. 164-170)
1 Holding On to Childhood David Parker , 1990 single work short story humour
— Appears in: The Mighty World of Eye : Stories, Anti-Stories 1990; (p. 160-163)
1 Time to Move On David Parker , 1990 single work short story humour
— Appears in: The Mighty World of Eye : Stories, Anti-Stories 1990; (p. 142-145)
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