Author

Contributions

  • de Moor, Katrien - Contributor
  • Martens, Gunther - Contributor
  • Keunen, Bart - Contributor
  • Roose, Alexander - Contributor
  • Biebuck, Benjamin - Contributor
and 2 more
  • Buelens, Gert - Contributor
  • Verbaal, Wim - Contributor

Publication

2005 - Academia Press, Gent

Word Count

60,250 words, Guess

Page Count

241 pages

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Description

Literature traditionally holds a special place in society. This fact can be ascribed especially to literature’s unique capability to urge its audience and readers to allow a voice other than their own to resound within. And yet, literature’s role raises questions regarding one’s responsibility and engagement – questions that nearly every generation asks itself time and again with an ever changing urgency. Eight literary scholars from the research group ‘Literature – Ethics – Law’ (Ghent University) focus on this complex dialogue between literature and ethics. In the process, they arrive at answers that tease out crucial historical developments (from Plato to HIV/AIDS-prose), while also attending to the impact of methodological reevaluations during the search for such answers.

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