Review article

Why Literature Matters

Kristina Peternai Andrić orcid.org/0000-0002-7470-353X ; Faculty of humanities and social sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek

Abstract

In the investigation of the purpose and roles of literature under the current circumstances of globalization and advance of communication technologies, which have also brought about a transformation of literature, questions arise concerning ethics and ethical reading of narratives. Many and various approaches and analytical starting points have emerged from the socalled “ethical turn” in literary theory. Particularly interesting is the rhetorical narratology as a segment of the postclassical or contextual narratology. There is no unified ethical methodology in approaching the narrative. Instead we discuss different ethical readings that usually analyse the ways in which narratives problematize or reinforce certain ethical postulates.

Keywords

ethics; narrative; narratology; empathy; identity

Hrčak ID:

174522

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/174522

Publication date:

29.12.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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