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.



9780191783395 9780191024818


Ethics in literature.


Electronic Books.

PN49 / .F538 2016