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Edinburgh German Yearbook 7: Ethical Approaches in Contemporary German-Language Literature and Culture
Emily Jeremiah (Ed.)
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Description for Edinburgh German Yearbook 7: Ethical Approaches in Contemporary German-Language Literature and Culture
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Building on a long tradition in German-language literature and culture, this volume focuses on contemporary engagements with ethical concerns in literary texts, essays, and films. There has been an "ethical turn" in the literature, culture, and theory of recent years. Questions of morality are urgent at a time of increasing global insecurities. Yet it is becoming ever more difficult to make ethical judgments in multicultural, relativist societies. The European economic meltdown has raised further ethical difficulties, widening the gap between rich and poor. Such divisions and difficulties heighten the widespread fear of "the other"in its various manifestations. And in ... Read more
Building on a long tradition in German-language literature and culture, this volume focuses on contemporary engagements with ethical concerns in literary texts, essays, and films. There has been an "ethical turn" in the literature, culture, and theory of recent years. Questions of morality are urgent at a time of increasing global insecurities. Yet it is becoming ever more difficult to make ethical judgments in multicultural, relativist societies. The European economic meltdown has raised further ethical difficulties, widening the gap between rich and poor. Such divisions and difficulties heighten the widespread fear of "the other"in its various manifestations. And in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Camden House
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571135506
SKU
V9781571135506
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Ref
99-1
About Emily Jeremiah (Ed.)
FRAUKE MATTHES is a Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh.
Reviews for Edinburgh German Yearbook 7: Ethical Approaches in Contemporary German-Language Literature and Culture
[A] well-conceived and timely volume. . . . [O]ne of the book's greatest strengths is that, despite its compactness, it manages to cover a great number and a large variety of both familiar and less-known voices. . . . [It is] is a useful, and for the most part inspirational, opening to an important (and as yet under-researched) dimension in ... Read more