Erll / Grabes / Nünning Ethics in Culture

The Dissemination of Values through Literature and Other Media
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-020655-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 14, 407 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature

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 sometimes conflicting relationship between ethics and aesthetics in theoretical contexts and individual case studies as diverse as colonial architecture, nineteenth-century literary histories, and postmodern writing and art.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Institutes, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erll, Astrid

Grabes, Herbert

Nünning, Ansgar

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cooke, Simon

Flügel, Anna-Lena

Hölscher, Meike

Rupp, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Table of Contents;7
3;Introduction;9
4;Literature’s Versions of Its Own Transmission of Values;27
5;Being Ethical: Open, Less Open, and Hidden Dissemination of Values in English Literature;43
6;Transcendental Ethics, Vertical Ethics, and Horizontal Ethics;59
7;Agrammaticality, Silence and the Diffusion of Values:The Holiday of Language;81
8;Beyond Virtue and Duty: Literary Ethics as Answerability;95
9;An Ethical Narratology;125
10;What Makes Literature Valuable: Fictions of Meta-Memory and the Ethics of Remembering;139
11;“Unprofitable Excursions”: On the Ethics of Empathy in Modernist Discourses on Art and Literature;161
12;Narrative, Ethics, and Postmodern Art in Siri Hustvedt’s What I Loved;179
13;Can Literary Figures Serve as Ethical Models?;203
14;The Ethical Dimension of Cognitive Poetics and “A Mechanism of Sensibility”;225
15;Ethics in Stone: The Architecture of the Raj;239
16;The Dissemination of Imperialist Values in Late Victorian Literature and Other Media;263
17;Prominent Values in Nineteenth-Century Histories of English Literature;287
18;Impressionism, Fiction, and the Location of the Ethical;307
19;Ethics and Aesthetics in Modern Literature and Theory: A Paradoxical Alliance?;325
20;Literature and Ethics: Social Critique and Morality in the American War II Novel;345
21;The Nightmare of History, the Value of Art and the Ethics of Love in Julian Barnes’s A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters;363
22;Ethics and Aesthetics in British Novels at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century;377
23;Backmatter;401

Über Autor(innen)

Astrid Erll, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany; Herbert Grabes and Ansgar Nünning, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany.