How (not) to justify ethical criticism
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https://doi.org/10.7146/rc.13104626Abstract
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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