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Introduction to Ethical Literary Criticism: China Perspectives

Autor Nie Zhenzhao
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 sep 2023
The title is a thorough introduction to ethical literary criticism, a critical methodology designed to interpret literature from the perspective of ethics, including a whole set of concepts, theories, and working mechanisms.
Drawing on ideas from both Western ethical criticism and the Chinese tradition of moral criticism, ethical literary criticism contrasts with the former in its occasional lack of a theoretical foundation and applicable methodologies and the latter that tends to make subjective moral judgments. Its most ground-breaking argument is that while natural selection answers how humans are different from animals physically, ethical selection endows human beings with reason and ethical consciousness. The ethical nature and edifying function of literature is therefore asserted, seeking to unfold in the literary text the ethical choices of human beings as a way to complete ethical selection in society within historical context. The arguments and theoretical toolbox inject a unique ethical dimension into literary criticism and help understand anew the ethical and social potency of literature.
The theoretical elucidation, exemplary textual analyses, and a supplement of key terminologies and ancillary materials make this book an essential guide for students and general readers interested in ethical literary criticism and scholars of literary criticism, ethical criticism, and literary theory.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032140025
ISBN-10: 103214002X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria China Perspectives

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

General, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Cuprins

1. Introduction  Part 1: Ethical Literary Criticism: Basic Theory  2. What is Ethical Literary Criticism  3. The Sphinx Factor and Ethical Selection  4. The Origin of Literature: Issues and Misreading  5. Ethical Literary Criticism: A Moral Tradition  6. Ethical Literary Criticism and Moral Criticism  7. Re-Reading Classical Literature  8. Western Ethical Criticism  9. Ethical Literary Criticism in China  Part 2: Ethical Literary Criticism: Case Studies  10. Ethical Taboo and the Tragedy of Oedipus  11. Ethical Concerns in Thomas Hardy's Works  12. The Law of the Jungle in The Old Man and the Sea  13. Incest and Revenge in Mourning Becomes Electra  14. The Transformation of Ethics in China's May Fourth Poetry

Notă biografică

Nie Zhenzhao, MAE, is currently Professor and Yunshan Chair on World Literature and Languages at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China. Previously he was a Distinguished Professor of Literature and founding director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of World Literature at Zhejiang University, where he transferred to emeritus status in 2022. He is an elected foreign member of the Academia Europaea.

Recenzii

‘The noblest mission of IAELC, as formulated in Nie Zhenzhao's teachings, is to restore the critical discipline to its proper suppleness and subtlety, its engagement with central human purposes, undoctrinaire, faithful to its documents, respectful of historical knowledge, and in short empirical in the best and most sensitive readerly way.'
Claude Rawson, Yale University, USA
'It seems to me that Ethical Literary Criticism is valuable in that it seeks not just to revise moral criticism, but to modernize and "update" it for our own time. I thus think that Ethical Literary Criticism may have potentially useful things to say not just about the literature of Samuel Johnson's or Arnold's or Leavis's age, but also about earlier (and later) works.'
Galin Tihanov, Queen Mary University of London, UK
'Nie Zhenzhao's Introduction to Ethical Literary Criticism illuminates the working logistics and principles of ethical literary criticism, generating a variety of ethical events and ethical conflicts in literary works, providing a new approach to literary studies after the "ethical turn" in western deconstructive and postmodern literary theory and criticism, creating new contemporary Chinese trends in literary criticism and theory, and anticipating the future anterior of the Asian literary critical discourse.'
Youngmin Kim, Dongguk University, South Korea

Descriere

This title is a thorough introduction to ethical literary criticism, defined as a critical methodology to interpret literature from the perspective of ethics, with the whole set of concepts and theories elucidated and textual analyses provided.