ETHICAL LITERARY CRITICISM AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF HUMANISTIC SPIRIT
Keywords:
Aesthetics, Chinese Classical Literature, Ecological Ethics, Greco-Roman Literature, HistorismAbstract
Ethical literary criticism interprets and analyses literary works, writers, and methods of criticism related to literature from an ethical standpoint and proposes that literature is produced from an ethical human need to express moral emotions and ideas. This article combines related literary works, starting from the four dimensions of the relationship between person and others, person and society, person and nature, and person and self. Thus, it aims at providing a paradigm to study the connotation of humanistic spirit veined within ethical literary criticism, and its value in the construction of human spirit.
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