How (not) to justify ethical criticism

Forfattere

  • Leander Møller Gøttcke

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/rc.13104626

Resumé

As the title of my paper reveals, the question that I want to discuss is a simple one: How should we justify ethical criticism of literature? To try to answer this question may, however, seem like a strange task for two very different reasons.

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Publiceret

2018-03-22

Citation/Eksport

Gøttcke, L. M. (2018). How (not) to justify ethical criticism. Res Cogitans, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.7146/rc.13104626