Storytelling has always occupied a central role in the configuration of self and world. However, the patterns of meaning it creates are often controversial, as they are metaphoric or holistic. The Handbook of Literary Criticism and Ethics provides a clear roadmap to understanding the changing ethical value attributed to Western literature from the ancient Greeks to the present. Readers will gain a nuanced apprehension of the evolution of literary forms, both alongside and against the dominant cultural paradigms. What ensues are critical reconfigurations of ethics and aesthetics.
Susana Onega, Ph.D. (1979), is Professor Emerita of English at Zaragoza University. She has published extensively on English fiction and critical theory, including Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary Narrative in English, co-edited with Jean-Michel Ganteau (Rodopi 2011), and Liminality and the Ethics of Form in Contemporary Trauma Narratives (Routledge 2014).
Jean-Michel Ganteau, PhD (1995), is Professor of Contemporary British Literature at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. He has published extensively on contemporary British fiction; his latest monograph is entitled The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Fiction (Routledge 2023). He has co-edited several volumes on the ethics of fiction with Susana Onega.
