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Ethics in culture : the dissemination of values through literature and other media /

Alongside the recent cultural turn in the humanities, there has been a noticeable return to ethical considerations. With regard to literature as well as other media, this has rekindled awareness of a tension, antagonism, or even disparity between ethics and aesthetics. This volume of articles takes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Erll, Astrid, Grabes, Herbert, Nünning, Ansgar
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2008.
Colección:Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft ; 14.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Literature's versions of its own transmission of values / Angela Locatelli
  • Being ethical : open, less open, and hidden dissemination of values in English literature / Herbert Grabes
  • Transcendental ethics, vertical ethics, and horizontal ethics / Marshall Brown
  • Agrammaticality, silence and the diffusion of values : the holiday of language / Ronald Shusterman
  • Beyond virtue and duty : literary ethics as answerability / Philipp Wolf
  • An ethical narratology / Wolfgange G. Müller
  • What makes literature valuable : fictions of meta-memory and the ethics of remembering / Birgit Neumann
  • "Unprofitable excursions" : on the ethics of empathy in modernist discourses on art and literature / Simon Cooke
  • Narrative, ethics, and postmodern art in Siri Hustvedt's What I loved / Hubert Zapf
  • Can literary figures serve as ethical models? / Wolfgang Hallet
  • The ethical dimension of cognitive poetics and "a mechanism of sensibility" / Jürgen Schlaeger
  • Ethics in stone : the architecture of the Raj / Astrid Erll
  • The dissemination of imperialist values in late Victorian literature and other media / Ansgar Nünning, Jan Rupp
  • Prominent values in nineteenth-century histories of English literature / Margit Sichert
  • Impressionism, fiction, and the location of the ethical / Max Saunders
  • Ethics and aesthetics in modern literature and theory : a paradoxical alliance? / Annette Simonis
  • Literature and ethics : social critique and morality in the American war II novel / Björn Minx
  • 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 / Susana Onega
  • Ethics and aesthetics in British novels at the beginning of the twenty-first century / Vera Nünning.