Literature and Ethics in a Time of Crisis

Literature and Ethics in a Time of Crisis

Edited by Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson, Pieter Vermeulen, and Joakim Wrethed

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Yearbook of English Studies 56

Modern Humanities Research Association

11 August 2026 • 334pp

ISBN: 978-1-839547-67-6 (paperback)

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Contents:

vii-viii	Foreword Richard Adelman	Cite
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xvi-xix	Notes on Contributors Richard Adelman	Cite
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1-12	Introduction: What Remains? Literature and Ethics in a Time of Crisis Pieter Vermeulen, Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson, Joakim Wrethed doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00023	Cite
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15-28	Gift of Life or Gift of Death? Ethical Dilemmas in Annie Ernaux, Han Kang, and Maylis de Kerangal Alexandra Urakova doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00024	Cite
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29-44	Meditations on the Unmediable: An Ethics of Contingency in Paul Auster's Early Work Thomas Claviez doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00025	Cite
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45-61	The Ugly Phallus and the Shit Hare: The Aesthetics of the Unaesthetic and the Ethics of the Unethical Joakim Wrethed doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00026	Cite
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65-77	Ethics and Tender Narration in Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Carole-Anne Sweeney doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00027	Cite
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78-91	Writing and Reading in the Zone of Literary Fiction: Tacit Knowledge, Ethics, Affect, and Aesthetics in T. C. Boyle's 'Chicxulub' James Phelan doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00028	Cite
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92-104	Caring, Sharing, Narrating: The Ethical Potential of Emmi Itäranta's Memory of Water Alice Sundman doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00029	Cite
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107-120	Memoirs as Mirrors of Experiential Knowledge: Renegotiating Affect in Narrative-Deontology Approaches to Schizophrenia Self-Stories David Lombard doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00030	Cite
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121-137	Navigating Deficiency and Excess: Ethical Challenges and Affordances of Auto/Biographical Narratives of Desperate Care Katarina Bernhardsson, Anna Hultman doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00031	Cite
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138-154	Synaptic Epigenetic Priming of Ethical Sociality in Sophocles and George Eliot Donald R. Wehrs doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00032	Cite
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157-169	Does Ethical Reading Have a Shelf Life? Stephen E. Kidd doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00033	Cite
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170-183	Ethics After Annihilation, or, Appropriating Pompeiian Graffiti Miikka Laihinen doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00034	Cite
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184-202	Interdividuality, Ethics, and Education in the Poetry of Jon Silkin and Geoffrey Hill William A. Johnsen doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00035	Cite
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203-215	A Literature of Hiding and an Ethics of Visibility: Anna Langfus's First Holocaust Novel Geir Uvsløkk doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00036	Cite
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219-232	'The Power of a Collective': The Ethics of Anthologizing Migrant and Native American Women's Writing in English Anna Sofia Churchill doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00037	Cite
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233-245	Picture Book Refugees as Imaginative Humanitarian Ethnography Andrea Macrae doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00038	Cite
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246-259	The Ethics of Autofiction: Authenticity and the New Sincerity in Rachel Cusk, Ben Lerner, and David Foster Wallace Mary K. Holland doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00039	Cite
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260-274	The Mimetic Turn and the Ethics of the Rhetorical Occasion Marina Ludwigs doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00040	Cite
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275-287	Ethics and the Family Memoir: The Mother's Story in David Baddiel's My Family: The Memoir Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00041	Cite
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288-312	Bibliography Richard Adelman doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00042	Cite
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Einarsson, Charlotta Palmstierna, Pieter Vermeulen, and Joakim Wrethed (eds), Literature and Ethics in a Time of Crisis (= Yearbook of English Studies, 56.1 (2026))

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