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Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2019, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (6): 196-204.

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Literary Friendship Revisited: Significance of Wayne Booth's Literary Ethics to the Contemporary Literary Studies

Fan Yun   

  1. the Institute of Aesthetics and Critical Theory, Zhejiang University
  • Online:2019-11-25 Published:2020-03-20
  • About author:Fan Yun, Ph. D., is an associate professor in the Institute of Aesthetics and Critical Theory, Zhejiang University. His academic interests include aesthetics and ethics, contemporary British and American literary theory, the history of the Idea of Enlightenment.
  • Supported by:
    the Humanity and Social Sciences Youth Foundation of the Ministry of Education, and the Basic Theory Research Fund of Zhejiang University

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Abstract: The theories and critiques since the 1960s have snared contemporary literary studies into a predicament, and with the emergence of post-critique, reviewing Wayne Booth' literary ethics may cast some new light on the predicament. His efforts to reconstruct literary ethics, call for literary friendship, elucidate rhetoric ethics, and explore the public dimension of conduction will illuminate the reshaping of cultural character and the return to ethics and life in contemporary literary studies.

Key words: Wayne Booth, literary ethics, friendship, "conduction"