Introduction
In the first days of October, 2016, the 6th international conference of the International Association for Ethical Literary Criticism took place at the University of Tartu, in Tartu, Estonia. In a number of ways, the conference was extraordinary, unprecedented. The initial conferences of the Chinese-founded AELC were organized in China, while the 5th conference, the first beyond Chinese borders, was held in Seoul Dongguk University, in 2015. Thus, ethical literary criticism, a new (or at least envisaged as a renewed) current in literary criticism – centered on questions related to ethics, or morals – for the first time moved out from Asia, to the West’s “regained periphery” in the Eastern Baltics.
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