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Along the hot cultural flip within the humanities, there was a obvious go back to moral concerns. in regards to literature in addition to different media, this has rekindled knowledge of a pressure, antagonism, or maybe disparity among ethics and aesthetics. This quantity of articles takes a extra systematic and cross-disciplinary method of the generally mooted moral flip in literature and different media than has been pursued up to now. It brings jointly a variety of severe views from literary experiences, media and cultural reminiscence stories, and philosophy, tracing the advanced and occasionally conflicting dating among ethics and aesthetics in theoretical contexts and person case stories as various as colonial structure, nineteenth-century literary histories, and postmodern writing and artwork.

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