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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.
Sommario
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
Info autore
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.
