: Astrid Erll, Herbert Grabes, Ansgar Nünning
: Ethics in Culture The Dissemination of Values through Literature and Other Media
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
: 9783110206555
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This volume brings together a wide range of criticial 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.



Astrid Erll, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany;Herbert Grabes andAnsgar Nünning, J stus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany.

Frontmatter1
Table of Contents7
Introduction9
Literature’s Versions of Its Own Transmission of Values27
Being Ethical: Open, Less Open, and Hidden Dissemination of Values in English Literature43
Transcendental Ethics, Vertical Ethics, and Horizontal Ethics59
Agrammaticality, Silence and the Diffusion of Values:The Holiday of Language81
Beyond Virtue and Duty: Literary Ethics as Answerability95
An Ethical Narratology125
What Makes Literature Valuable: Fictions of Meta-Memory and the Ethics of Remembering139
“Unprofitable Excursions”: On the Ethics of Empathy in Modernist Discourses on Art and Literature161
Narrative, Ethics, and Postmodern Art in Siri Hustvedt’s What I Loved179
Can Literary Figures Serve as Ethical Models?203
The Ethical Dimension of Cognitive Poetics and “A Mechanism of Sensibility”225
Ethics in Stone: The Architecture of the Raj239
The Dissemination of Imperialist Values in Late Victorian Literature and Other Media263
Prominent Values in Nineteenth-Century Histories of English Literature287
Impressionism, Fiction, and the Location of the Ethical307
Ethics and Aesthetics in Modern Literature and Theory: A Paradoxical Alliance?325
Literature and Ethics: Social Critique and Morality in the American War II Novel345
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 Chapters363
Ethics and Aesthetics in British Novels at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century377
Backmatter401