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- Title
"What We're Made of": Personhood in Graham Swift's "Last Orders."
- Authors
de Gay, Jane
- Abstract
This article argues that Graham Swift's novel "Last Orders" addresses profound moral questions about what constitutes a person. The article takes its lead from John Habgood's question, "How complete does a human being have to be in order to qualify morally as a person?" and also draws on insights from other theologians to analyze the moral perspective of the novel. It shows how "Last Orders" looks for redemption in the face of broken relationships and radical crises of identity, and also shows how Swift defends the moral personhood of the disabled and the recently deceased.
- Subjects
LAST Orders (Book : Swift); SWIFT, Graham, 1949-; HABGOOD, John, 1927-2019; IDENTITY (Psychology) in literature; ETHICS in literature; INTEGRITY in literature; AFTERLIFE in literature
- Publication
Christianity & Literature, 2013, Vol 62, Issue 4, p565
- ISSN
0148-3331
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1177/014833311306200407