Ethical Selection and Brain Text: The Development of Ethical Literary Criticism

• Main Authors: Yang, Gexin, Zheng, Hongxia
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: brain text; ethical criticism; ethical literary criticism; ethical selection
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss37/22; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1893/viewcontent/KK_2037_2C_202021_2022_20Forum_20Kritika_20on_20Ethical_20Literary_20Criticism_2C_20Brain_20Text_20and_20New_20Readings_20of_20World_20Literature_20__20Yang_2C_20Zheng.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This essay examines the discursive emergence of ethical literary criticism—a new wave of theory and practice of literary criticism that has developed in the West even as it has also historically thrived in China. It begins with the revival of ethical criticism in the West when American ethical criti...