Event overview
The conception of ethics as ‘responsibility to otherness’ has dominated literary criticism for the last forty years, but is being met with new resistance.
Where it was once radical for literary studies to affirm the dissolution of subjectivity, the stability of the subject is now being upheld. Where ‘particularity’ was once in vogue, the ‘universal’ is now the buzzword. What does this backlash against literary theory mean for the ethics of literature? Why is it taking place now? How will it change the way we read literary texts?
The conference aims to acknowledge a crisis in the ethics of otherness. We welcome work that considers how recent critiques of ‘otherness’ have affected both the reading and writing of literature. English and interdisciplinary proposals for twenty-minute papers on any aspect of ethics and literature are invited.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 13 Jun 2009 | 9:30am - 6:30pm |
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