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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 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.
Winner of the Raymond Williams Award. Includes: Cohon Flambe by Eva
Lewin; Crux, by April De Angelis; Cut it Out by Jan Ruppe; Ithaca
by Nina Rapi; Forced Out by Jean Abbott; The Taking of Liberty by
Cheryl Robeson; and Fail/Safe by Ayshe Raif.
Ritual and narrative are pivotal means of human meaning-making
and of ordering experience, but the close interrelationship between
them has not as yet been given the attention it deserves. How can
models and categories from narrative theory benefit the study of
ritual, and what can we gain from concepts of ritual studies in
analysing narrative? This book brings together a wide range of
disciplinary perspectives including literary studies, archaeology,
biblical and religious studies, and political science. It presents
theoretical explorations as well as in-depth case studies of ritual
and narrative in different media and historical contexts.
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