The 3rd International Symposium on Ethical Literary Criticism Successfully Held in Ningbo University

    Without any more bustle of new genres or theories in the world literature and literary criticism in the first two decades of the 21st century, the world of literature assumes a tendency of “ethical turn”, specifically found in China, where ethical literary criticism has now become a major national theoretical program. Many critics have a higher level of awareness of their social responsibility and the necessity of ethical concerns in literary works. The openness and inclusiveness of ethical literary criticism, which find expr‍ession in the plenary and panel discussions on the 3rd International Symposium on Ethical Literary Criticism, make it possible to integrate its preoccupations with other critical theories, hence showing a new dimension and a vigorous vitality.