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

Contributor(s):

Hagberg, Garry, 1952- []

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780191783395
9780191024818

Subject(s):

Ethics in literature

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

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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