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Fictional characters, real problems : the search for ethical content in literature / edited by Garry L. Hagberg.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191783395
  • 9780191024818
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN49 .F538 2016
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Contents:
Matters of character -- Literature, subjectivity, and poetic vision -- Language, dialogical identity, and self-understanding -- Patterns and possibilities of moral growth -- Historical genealogies of moral-aesthetic concepts.
Summary: These essays explore central aspects of the ethical content of literature: character, its formation, and its role in moral discernment; poetic vision in the context of ethical understanding; self-identity and self-understanding; literature's role in moral growth and change; and the historical background of the ethical dimension of literature.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

These essays explore central aspects of the ethical content of literature: character, its formation, and its role in moral discernment; poetic vision in the context of ethical understanding; self-identity and self-understanding; literature's role in moral growth and change; and the historical background of the ethical dimension of literature.

Ways of reading for ethical content -- Matters of character -- Literature, subjectivity, and poetic vision -- Language, dialogical identity, and self-understanding -- Patterns and possibilities of moral growth -- Historical genealogies of moral-aesthetic concepts.

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