Fictional characters, real problems : the search for ethical content in literature /
edited by Garry L. Hagberg.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.