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The Teaching Function of Literature and its Aesthetic: ethical literary criticism

This Panel deals with relationship between the teaching function of literature and its aesthetic and encourages ethical literary criticism as a methodology applied to literary studies, particularly comparative studies of the ethical values and their presentation in different cultural and historical contexts. For several decades, the ethical values of literature have been ignored or overlooked by some critics as well as writers, who overemphasize the formalistic structure of literary writing and tend to show a literary world with metaphysical and self-contained critical terms. Some postmodernist writings and critics have almost reduced the metaphorical values of literature to meaningless linguistic signs. Never before has literary criticism been so immediately faced with the dispute over issues concerning the teaching (ethical) function of literature and its aesthetic. As such, papers presented in this Panel will concentrate on studying literatures from ethical literary criticism and explore, through comparative and multi-cultural perspectives, the teaching function of literatures achieved by the way of aesthetic reading. Such key terms of ethical literary criticism as ethical choice, ethical identity, ethical chaos, natural will, free will and rational will are to be discussed and applied to decoding literary texts.

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