Ethics in Culture - The Dissemination of Values through Literature and Other Media

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.

About the author

Astrid Erll, geb. 1972, Studium der englischen und deutschen Philologie in Gießen; 2002 Promotion; Professorin für anglistische Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Wuppertal; Veröffentlichungen zur Kulturgeschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs sowie zur deutschen und englischen Literatur und Erinnerungskultur der 1920er Jahre, zur Literatur-, Gedächtnis-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie sowie zur Narratologie.

Ansgar Nünning ist Professor für Englische und Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.

Product details

• Assisted by: Astrid Erll (Editor), Herber Grabes (Editor), Herbert Grabes (Editor), Ansgar Nünning (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2008
• EAN: 9783110200720
• ISBN: 978-3-11-020072-0
• No. of pages: 399
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 31 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 700 g
• Illustrations: 7 b/w ill.
• Series: spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature; spectrum Literaturwissenschaft; spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature; spectrum Literaturwissenschaft; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies