The 1st International Symposium on Ethical Literary Criticism Successfully Held in Central China Normal University

    Ethical literary criticism has been a methodology in China since 2004, as at that year two conferences in that field were held respectively in Nanchang and Yichang and then comes the highly-cited paper “Ethical Approach to Literary Studies: A New Perspective”. Unlike Western ethical criticism, which has been assimilated either by philosophy or by narratology, ethical literary criticism has fully fledged into an independent school of critical theory in China. The 1st International Symposium on Ethical Literary Criticism has witnessed its development, where more than 120 scholars contributes to the topics and issues, like ethical Literary Criticism and the re-reading of literary canons, Literary Criticism and interdisciplinarity. It has provided a forum and resource for academics and advanced students from all over the world to share their findings in the field of literature and ethics.