Ethics in Culture

by Erll, Astrid

• ISBN13: 9783110200720
• ISBN10: 3110200724
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-30
• Publisher: De Gruyter

Summary

This volume brings together a wide range of criticial perspectives from literary studies, media and cultural memory studies, and philosophy, tracing the complex and sometimes conflicting relationship between ethics and aesthetics in theoretical contexts and individual case studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Theory Supported by History
Literature's Versions of Its Own Transmission of Values	p. 19
Being Ethical: Open, Less Open, and Hidden Dissemination of Values in English Literature	p. 35
Transcendental Ethics, Vertical Ethics, and Horizontal Ethics	p. 51
Agrammaticality, Silence and the Diffusion of Values: The Holiday of Language	p. 73
Beyond Virtue and Duty: Literary Ethics as Answerability	p. 87
An Ethical Narratology	p. 117
What Makes Literature Valuable: Fictions of Meta-Memory and the Ethics of Remembering	p. 131
"Unprofitable Excursions": On the Ethics of Empathy in Modernist Discourses on Art and Literature	p. 153
Narrative, Ethics, and Postmodern Art in Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved	p. 171
Can Literary Figures Serve as Ethical Models?	p. 195
The Ethical Dimension of Cognitive Poetics and "A Mechanism of Sensibility"	p. 217
History Inspiring Theory
Ethics in Stone: The Architecture of the Raj	p. 231
The Dissemination of Imperialist Values in Late Victorian Literature and Other Media	p. 255
Prominent Values in Nineteenth-Century Histories of English Literature	p. 279
Impressionism, Fiction, and the Location of the Ethical	p. 299
Ethics and Aesthetics in Modern Literature and Theory: A Paradoxical Alliance?	p. 317
Literature and Ethics: Social Critique and Morality in the American War II Novel	p. 337
The Nightmare of History, the Value of Art and the Ethics of Love in Julian Barnes's A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters	p. 355
Ethics and Aesthetics in British Novels at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century	p. 369
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