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

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Imprint:	Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 399 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft = Spectrum literature ; 14 Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft ; 14.
Subject:	Literature and morals. Literature and morals. Electronic books. Computer network resources.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11203359

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Other authors / contributors:	Erll, Astrid. Grabes, Herbert. Nünning, Ansgar.
ISBN:	9783110206555 3110206552 1282196596 9781282196599 9783110200720 3110200724
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Print version record.
Summary:	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 a more systematic and cross-disciplinary approach to the widely mooted ethical turn in literature and other media than has been pursued so far. It brings together a wide range of critical perspectives from literary studies, media and cultural memory studies, and philosophy, tracing the complex and s.
Other form:	Print version: Ethics in culture. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2008

Table of Contents:

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.

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

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