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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 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.
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