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  • Complexities and limits of ethical literary criticism
    Virk, Tomo
    Although the so-called ethical turn in literary studies happened in the eighties and nineties of the twentieth century in North America, the topic "Literature and Ethics" in its various forms and ... denominations has been present since the beginnings of the reflection on literature. This treatise summarizes the most prominent research directions of this topic and attempts to point out their strengths and weaknesses. As the most burning deficiency, it identifies the so-called cacophony of ethical approaches to literature (mostly in Western literary criticism, but also globally; Nie Zhenzhao's well elaborated proposal of ethical literary criticism seems to be a bright exception in this respect), characterized by the lack of theoretical and methodological self-reflection. In order to overcome this deficiency, it proposes to scrutinize some basic concepts and relations of ethical literary criticism, such as the range of terms "ethics" and "literature", the relation between ethics and morality and between ethics and politics, the problem of aesthetic autonomy in relation to the ethical evaluation, the problematic issue of aesthetic reevaluation on the ground of ethical evaluation, etc. In the conclusion, the treatise stresses the general importance of ethical research in literary studies and points out (the ethical) obligations of researchers engaging in Ethical Literary Criticism.
    Vir: Interdisciplinary studies of literature. - ISSN 2520-4920 (Letn. 1, št. 1, mar. 2017, str. 1-16)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2017
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 64800354

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