Publication of September 2020 issue of Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies – “The Ethical Turn Revisited”
Dear colleagues,
We take great pleasure in announcing the publication of the September 2020 issue of Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, “The Ethical Turn Revisited,” guest-edited by Iping Liang. This special issue features five research articles. There are also five research articles on general topics. All articles are available on our website; for more information please visit http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/.
Sincerely,
Mary Goodwin and Aaron Deveson
Editors
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
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Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, Vol. 46 No. 2 (September 2020)
Special Issue “The Ethical Turn Revisited”
Introduction
The Ethical Turn Revisited / Iping Liang
Articles
Modernity and Prophetic Speech: The Ethical as the Impossible in the Post-Religious Vision of Kahlil Gibran / Ghazouane Arslane
Bartleby and the Abyss of Potentiality / Woosung Kang
A Comparative Analysis of William Godwin’s Philosophical Treatise An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) and His Novel Things as They Are, Or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794): Including Reflections on the Relations among Philosophy, Ethics, and Literature / Wolfgang Müller
The Ethics of Narrative in Film: The Great Buddha + and Its Self-Reflexive Devices / Yanqin Tan
White Story and Black Pains in Gail Jones’s Sorry / Labao Wang
Literary and Cultural Criticism
Metavisibility as an Epistemological Figure of the Digital Age: Selfieing and Data Visualization / Chun-yen Chen
Melodrama Interrupted: Kawashima Yūzō’s Interventions in Genre and Gender / Earl Jackson
Re-Discovering Liu Na’Ou and His Man with a Camera: Authorial I, Written Diary, and Cinematic Writing / Ming-Yu Lee
The North on Southern Screens: Hybrid Korean Screen Cultures in the Mid-2000s Films A Bold Family (2005), Over the Border (2006), and Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005) / Bonnie Tilland
Inscribing African History: Contemporaneity and V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River / Dexu Zhang